The local school trustee race
As you can see, when you visit the campaign opinion page, here, you will notice that I have ignored the school trustees races. It is intentional, they should not exist and by ignoring them I hope that their redundancy and lack of usefulness to the political scene will be noticed. There should be one big school board that takes care of diversity and religious education by means of an expanded and heavy handed curriculum committee.
I did notice that one candidate _Allen McLennan has the most colourful signs and obviously a lot of money to spend on a frivolous position that places people on local positions to rubberstamp the Provincial decisions. If that's what he wants who am I so stop him?
One good reason not to have a trustee is that in the local issues of school closings nobody seems to support the parents at the Board level, so why have them?
I did notice that one candidate _Allen McLennan has the most colourful signs and obviously a lot of money to spend on a frivolous position that places people on local positions to rubberstamp the Provincial decisions. If that's what he wants who am I so stop him?
One good reason not to have a trustee is that in the local issues of school closings nobody seems to support the parents at the Board level, so why have them?
3 comments:
In response to your article on trustees.
Allen McLennan may have the most colorful signs but in his world the sky can only be painted blue.
Word of the recent debate in the northern reaches has sparked a lot of tongue wagging. His view is that it is high time teachers started teaching again - by this he means kids need to start colouring in the lines again and not out of the box.
Why anyone would consider supporting a future trustee who, in a debate, slams teachers - slams administration - and anyone with a crayon in their hand is beyond me.
Looks like a Gilchrest in sheep’s clothes to me.
Yet another candidate with a platform framed around de-railing democracy through sheer arrogance and heavy-handed tactics.
While Jane Jenniga my be green and a little too naive - in the end - she may be our best defence at bringing some listening skills back to this elected post and placing kids and teachers first.
We haven't had the luxury of seeing any candidates yet, thanks for the heads-up
It seems rather pointless to elect trustees when the Province controls the budgets and everything else.
As already pointed out, the trustees don't seem to know they are there to represent the students and their families, not to promote and parrot the views of the overpaid administrators.
But that's been a problem for a long time - naive trustees sucked in by the flattery and phoney platitudes of senior management, who want nothing more than to control the trustees to do their bidding.
We need strong new representatives who won't fall for that game.
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