Re: Tragedy opens heart, bigotry doesn’t, Feb. 2
Tragedy opens heart, bigotry doesn’t, Feb. 2
Once again, we get another Band-Aid approach put forth to deal with an ongoing problem. You can only patch an old tire so many times. The real solution to school board/trustee issues is the one put forth by Martin Regg Cohn in his excellent piece.
The biggest obstacle to meaningful educational change in this province is the current state of governance. School boards and trustees are anachronisms that have been allowed to stumble into the 21st century. During the past decade the one word most commonly found in any sentence related to school boards/trustees has been dysfunction.
It is clearly time to get rid of school boards/trustees for the various reasons accurately and eloquently put forth by Cohn. Since educational funding in this province was centralized in 1997, there really is no functional reason for the existence of school boards. It seems most educational jurisdictions in the western world seem to get along fine without them. The significant amount of money saved by eliminating this unnecessary layer of political bureaucracy could be put where it belongs — in the classroom.
William Nicholson, Toronto
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