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The easiest way to cut the education budget...

idnak

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The public system has lost 50,000 students and the private system has picked up 7,500? I guess I know where BCTF teachers will be looking for new engagements once the public system makes them redundant. And won't they be surprised by the expectations in their new working environments - like that they will have to work full time to receive full time pay and benefits? Truthfully, I feel sorry for teachers. Their union has engendered a culture of entitlement which does nothing to encourage them to strive for excellence and reap financial reward when they do their jobs well. And while their union has succeeded in achieving a handsome wage structure for them, it exceeds the renumeration for school custodians by only about 15%, and teachers shoulder how many years of post-secondary debt before they can get to work?
Until the public system places the needs of the students ahead of the needs of all other stakeholders, it will continue to weaken. Parents get tired of watching staff parking lots empty before the playground has even cleared, while their children receive nothing beyond the bare minimum required per the contract.
Private schools are booming in my school district. They are moving into the schools the public system is abandoning. Parents are willing to ante up all that dough and why? Because public education has failed to deliver. In the private system, the parents have a stronger voice than an employee's union. The private system offers choices that correspond to the learning styles of children and to the philosophical leanings of parents. Whether it's Montessori, International Baccalaureate, Advanced Placement, or tailored to specific learning disabilities; the needs of the individual are met. Teachers answer to Principals, Principals answer to parents. How sensible is that?
Remember, now that funding is attached to the pupil rather than to the school district, the easiest way to reduce the education budget is to encourage as many families as possible to enroll their children in private schools - where the student subsidy is just half.

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I wanted to comment on your remark that a teacher that wants full-time pay should have to work full-time. I am not sure where your misconception comes from, but any teacher that currently is being paid full-time does in fact work full-time. Many people believe that teachers only work during instruction hours, that is not true. I have never seen a parking lot empty before the play ground empties. It is true that teachers are only required to be in the school during instruction, but teachers are still required to fulfill their professional obligations or preparing, reporting, and communicating regardless of when they leave the schools. Many teachers are parents as well as teachers and have the same family obligations as any family. Many teachers have home offices in their homes so they have meet their professional obligations as home. I know of many teachers who regularly put in 12 hour days, because they truly care about their job.

One of the reasons why schools have been closing is a result of the reduction in the budget that our current government has offered us. It is common for parents who do not want to bus their children to the next school is to group together and try to open their own school. You seem to want to encourage families to leave the public system to reduce the budget on the public system. I do not follow your logic hear. If you are a believer in the FSA that are regularly published in the paper, you will see that the only private schools that do better then public schools are the schools that select their students. (The ones that only take smart kids) When you compare these schools on how they should ranked based on the socio-economics of their student's families then the school are either average or marginally better. (It is proven that socio-economics is one of the biggest players in a student's success)

I understand why people are concerned about the education system, but look around the world and find a system that is not only better then our system, but a system that you could actually call "good". Teachers are only doing their best with what they have. I say stop complaining about them, and help them.

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