Wow the shame! How awful does a school board have to be to actually have the province step in and take control? Keep in mind these boards are democratically elected by the same twits who elect both Liberals and Conservatives provincially and federally. Yes that would be you and I and frankly sometimes I worry about your competence as a voter.
One board allegedly is guilty of financial mismanagement and three others are being investigated for the same. The fifth board you really have to admire their chutzpah. They are being ordered to repay costs for a trip to Italy to buy art. Man you can't make this stuff up. With tight budgets, provincial deficits and constant complaining about underfunding education how does a board O.K. a junket to Italy to buy art ?
The article in yesterday's K-W Record is titled "Ontario takes control of London school board, launches probes of three others" and was written by Allison Jones and Liam Casey.
Likely last month I had suggested here that our very own Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) was in need of the province stepping in to get them back on track. Now by getting back on track I was not suggesting financial mismanagement as much as a mismanagement of their core values and goals. We have all seen years and decades of sniping, back stabbing , tattling and deflections of focus away from reading, writing and arithmetic. The ongoing Caroline Burjowski court battles are a prime example. The Board could have and should have settled them back in the beginning instead of letting them fester. Festering however seems to be the prime strategy of this board as they spend taxpayers money in order to bury other taxpayers who have had enough of their arrogance, entitlement and refusal to deal in good faith with dissenting opinions and parties.
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