Unfortunately, serious problems continue to exist within the
taxpayer-funded educational system throughout Ontario and indeed Canada.
It is not solely caused by monetary factors but also includes the irresponsibility of union leaders and members within the teaching profession, colleges and parents.
I would venture to guess that 49% of teachers throughout Ontario
are very dedicated and devoted to teaching students as opposed to engaging in
union activities that directly affect the learning abilities and education of
students.
However, 23.3% of today's youth between the ages of 15 to 24 are
neither in education nor employment. Ontario’s high school graduation rate, as
per Stat Canada, is 75.5% and compared to the national average of 74.8% as of
2010.
Bad news even without taking into account that the liberal
government reduced the curriculum standards from 5 years to just 4 years.
What this all means in economic reality terms is that in Ontario
492,000 thousand students between the ages of 15 to 24 annually enter society
WITHOUT having obtained or completed basic high school education.
Across Canada, this number is in excess of 1.2 MILLION students
that enter society and the community without the basic skills of a high school
education.
For 75 years society has known that individuals who fail to
obtain a high school degree are more than twice as likely to fall into decades
of welfare and poverty.
The poverty rates throughout North America, unfortunately, are
highest among Blacks, be they African American or African Canadian, aboriginals,
Hispanics, Immigrants having English as a Second Language and Students in rural
communities.
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development(OECD) calculations
tell us that $49 dollars and $65 dollars respectively represent the average per-hour cost for primary and secondary teachers.
In Canada, our taxpayer-funded cost for elementary teachers is
$68 dollars per hour and secondary teachers come in at $74 dollars per hour!
Something has to change that can drastically reduce these costs and reverse the trend of our youth dropping out of our schools.
A school voucher or a tuition tax credit of $5,000 to $8,000 based on a family’s combined gross
incomes of say less than $60,000 would more easily assist parents and their
children in choosing to transfer out of the public system into a private
school.
This is not a novel idea
as it has already been proposed by Malkin Dare, President of, the Society for Quality
Education along with some other effective and meaningful educational and cost-saving measures that would greatly reduce the present overall cost for
ever-increasing education budgets.
Education has strayed
from the teaching or learning of science, math, biology, physics, Canadian
history and languages, reading and writing to teaching and learning the rights
of unions, forcing homosexual activist clubs and gay-straight alliances into
our school systems.
A failed unionized
professional system that annually leaves behind nearly half a MILLION Ontario
students and in excess of 1.2 MILLION Canadian students!
A profession-based system that continues to increase poverty, welfare and jobless numbers and concerns itself with non-education curriculum issues of salary increases, benefits, sick days, pensions and gay and lesbian rights.
A profession-based system that continues to increase poverty, welfare and jobless numbers and concerns itself with non-education curriculum issues of salary increases, benefits, sick days, pensions and gay and lesbian rights.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/malkin-dare/ontario-education-budget_b_2629624.html
