Today's Waterloo Region Record carries an Opinion piece from the Mike Farwell titled "School boards are well past their expiry date". You can hardly imagine my joy upon reading that headline especially as just last week I complimented the Ministry of Education for stepping in and seriously taking a few other school boards to task. Now Mr. Farwell clearly believes that both our separate (Catholic) and public boards (WRDSB) are in need of that kind of tune up from the province.
Now first off I admit that I don't follow the Catholic Board as intensely as I do the WRDSB whom over the decades have behaved like high school bullies and mostly gotten away with it all at taxpayers' expense. Mr. Farwell did mention the Catholic Board spending $200,000 on legal fees to silence opposing voices on the board. If they indeed did do that then shame on those trustees. I believe that the WRDSB legal fees likely have run, year after year, far, far in excess of that as the WRDSB attacks parents, teachers and any other dissenters. Isn't it amazing how higher education has NOT produced staff or trustees of superior moral or ethical character?
There have been many gross failures with the WRDSB not even counting their now "normal" low scores for students in reading, writing and arithmetic. Some of those failures have been discussed here. If there are many that I don't know about with the Catholic Board then I would be much less likely to disagree with Mr. Farwell's assessment.
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