Thursday, December 4, 2025

"TOO MANY BOARDS AND TRUSTEES ARE DISTRACTED BY MATTERS THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT, AND THIS MUST CHANGE"

 

Well that title above pretty much says it all. These words are those of our current Ontario Education Minister Paul Calandra. I sure hope that mayor Sandy Shantz is enjoying all the criticism of her former employer and political launching pad, the Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB). Hopefully if they get taken over by the province it might open some minds as to what kind of politician she really is. 

I am no sycophant of Doug Ford and his Conservative government here in Ontario. Their environmental policies are abhorrent to me. Their anti labour policies are also abhorrent to me. Now when it comes to the rotten state of our education I can only smile as they bash various Boards and Trustees. I too like so many other parents have suffered at the hands of that disgusting Board. I currently have a Letter To The Editor submitted to the K-W Record last Friday on this subject which although acknowledged as received by Jim Poling, Editor of the Record, has not yet seen the light of the day. Nor have any others over the last decade. I'm confident however that the rumour that Uniroyal Chemical/Chemtura/Lanxess exerting influence to muzzle me are just that, rumours. 

If not then perhaps I will just have to publish it here and ask the Record what's up. By the way that quote in the title is in today's K-W Record on the front page. Personally with the ongoing (three years now) distraction of Carolyn Burjowski and Mike Ramsay both initiated by the WRDSB; I am highly optimistic that the province are sending the WRDSB a not so subtle message. In case the Board aren't capable of understanding it then I will clarify the message for them in capitol letters as follows:

WRDSB STOP FOCUSING ON DEI (Diversity, Equity, Indigenous?) ISSUES AND GET BACK TO THE CORE ISSUES OF READING, WRITING AND ARITHMETIC !

The Board have nor behaved this way due to any surplus of morals or ethics but far more likely to distract from their ongoing core educational failures.  

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