Ontario’s Public Sector class size increase could cut more than 1,000 Public Sector teaching jobs, TDSB estimates – March 18, 2019,
Canada has an extremely big government and part of the reason for this has a lot to do with how Canadian school children are being educated. Most Canadians don’t understand how our economic system works, and if they learn it from teachers, what often happens is that public school teachers often explain the Free Market as if it’s this complicated, extremely hard to understand INSTITUTION that only the very rich are allowed to participate in. This is often the reason why most public school children not only grow up entitled but also resentful of our system of governance. Furthermore, children who usually don’t pay any taxes are often brainwashed into believing that the Government can solve every single problem.
Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute
One of Toronto’s better public high schools is Stephen Leacock Collegiate Institute, it’s one of Toronto’s better public schools primarily because of the donations it received from graduates like actor, comedian, screenwriter Mike Myers. What often happens in a free market system is if successful people have positive experiences because of a particular school or institution those successful people will usually give back to school or institution, that is they’ll give back until the teachers or the workers form workers unions.
The reality of the matter is Toronto Public Schools aren’t underfunded, the real problem is teachers are overpaid. It’s important to understand that taxpayers pay PUBLIC school teachers salaries, taxpayers pay their salaries regardless of how the Public School Board spends the money they receive from the government. So let’s say the Public school board because Public School teachers with tenure consume most of the money they receive from the government, don’t spend the money they get correctly or usefully, who gets punished more by the bad spending decisions, the teachers? or students? Furthermore, even if a bad economic decision is made, the public school teachers are unionized so if the teachers fight or go on strike, who pays for collective bargaining?
Don’t the taxpayers and the students pay for the collective bargaining? because public schools aren’t private companies, they’re Public institutions, so obviously, the students and the taxpayers pay for collective bargaining, which obviously equates to a deteriorating public school system, because even if changes are necessary, there’s no market force that will make the school board go bankrupt. In the private sector, when you do something wrong, you go bankrupt, Zellers doesn’t exist anymore. When you talk about Zellers in 2019 you say Zellers was a major Canadian chain discount department retailer, because they made the mistake of not addressing what tey were doing wrong, which in turn caused less and less people to purchase their products or services. Teachers, teachers unions and their collective bargaining allows them to avoid discussing what they might be doing wrong and instead focus on their personal greed, which is more money.
There are a lot of Canadians who would love to be a teacher and who would be willing to take a temporary pay cut to sow the market teir unique teaching abilities, but these individuals aren’t allowed to be public school teachers, because the current teachers use the power of government to force taxpayers to yeild to their demands. It’s pure evil no matter how you slice it.
I voted for Doug Ford, I thought he ran a smart campaign and being honest what I’m learning via Doug Ford is that the soft approach isn’t going to solve this problem. Because these issues appear to be systematic and until we start getting to the root causes of these problems, they will continue. I attended Public Schools and quite frankly there’s no way in hell I’d donate money to a public school in Ontario, not because I don’t love our children but because of how the money will be spent. Personally, I think there are too many female teachers, if there’s a fear of people sending their daughters to be taught by men, fine, however, the real issue I see is how women spend money on education. Number 1 problem I have with public school education in many parts of Ontario is the perception of the trades.
I want to point out that a lot of what’s happened to the trades in Ontario was caused by Unions, who push a fear mongering agenda of wage suppression, because in case you didn’t know the thinking behind most protectionist is that if people have too many options wages will come down for workers, which is utterly ridiculous but makes a lot of sense if you’re a socialist or a believer in the Marxist doctrine of economics. In a free market what happens when a lot of people have a certain skill is that each person tries to separate their talents from the other, so instead of simply offering to plumb, a person might offer plumbing and electrician, or someone else might come up with a new invention or widget, which makes life easier, which ofcourse creates new jobs, which also has the potential to create derivatives of that product, which creates a whole new set of higher paying jobs and that’s how the market operates.
What the teachers fear is that this might happen in the teaching profession, imagine if the free market found a more effective way to teach school children in smaller class sizes? Imagine if parents had the option to pull their forced funding into public schools? What would realistically happen to unionized public school teachers with tenure? Yes, their jobs might be threatened by teachers who graduated maybe 10+ years ago who can’t work as a public school teacher because they have to wait for an existing public school teacher to either retire, quit, get fired or die!
The Canadian public has been taught to view teachers as innocent in all of this, and basically, this is why when people read the CBC article below, they typically react emotionally, taking the side of the Public School teachers.
Personally, I would never send my child to a public school, I feel if my child is forced to attend a public school I’ve failed as a parent. Yes, I work multiple jobs to make sure that my kids never have to be forced to attend a public school. Now, if my children want to attend one, I won’t stop them, but I’ve made it my mission to put them in Private schools because in my opinion, the Public education system in Ontario is demonic and evil.
The best thing to ever happen to me was getting away from the public school system, I made so much money when I left the public schools that I couldn’t even qualify for OSAP, most of my school friends are still straddled with student loans, I never qualified, because my income was too high. I began working at 15, had to lie about my age to get my first job. For me education reform is overdue. I commend Doug Ford in his efforts and now that I’m seeing the push back against a very reasonable man, I will never vote Conservative, Liberal or NDP ever again. I will vote for the People’s Party of Canada or the Libertarian Party of Canada from now on. Because clearly, Canada has systemic problems that need to be rooted out.
It’s pretty obvious what Doug Ford is doing because the public teacher’s lobby is pushing back against school choice/ school vouchers and Doug has to be creative. Like I’ve stated above, these teachers and their unions are demonic. It’s pure evil what they’re doing, you teach because you love to teach, what do you think I’m getting paid to write this stuff? Do you even see me spending any time telling you who I am or what my real job is? No, I don’t care, I want the best for my country and I don’t even ask that you credit me for writing this, what I want is for you to wake the hell up and see how these evil forces are destroying the lives of our children. We have a great country and we’re losing it, for greed! Protectionism is GREED!
The love of money is the root of all evil, just because someone else found a way to make more money than you make, doesn’t mean that you as a lower income earner can’t be GREEDY!
GREED is GREED!
Wake up Canada!
Ontario’s class size increase could cut more than 1,000 teaching jobs, TDSB estimates – CBC
Interesting times ahead.