WATERLOO REGION EDUCATION BUREAUCRACY

This following article was written in the Waterloo Region Record last March 1, 2012 :
"Parents fought the education bureaucracy, and the parents won". This of course refers to the issue of after school care being taken over unilaterally by the school board. This story , like the one posted yesterday, was also written by Peter Shawn Taylor. Parent Craig Holland stated that parents "...pushed and we pushed and we pushed". Then Mr. Taylor states "Finally when all the diversionary tactics and self-affirmation failed, the board-staff and trustees-listened.". Peter Shawn Taylor also describes Mr. Holland's discription of the difficulties parents faced. "He described how the initial response to parental objections was that the plan rested with staff alone and there would be no input from trustees or voters. Then his group was told the point of no return had already passed. After that , Holland said it was framed as an issue of social justice; parents seeking to save non-profit daycares were thus "misguided"." Fortunately despite the best (worst) efforts of schoolboard staff the plan failed and the parents took the day. This article begs the same question as yesterday's and that is why staff (employees) with self aggrandizing motives have become in charge of our educational system, to its' detriment.