SO IS THE WATERLOO REGION DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD PAYING ATTENTION?

Maybe bad habits die hard and the WRDSB still have their heads so far up their butts that they don't even want to know how to improve math teaching in our public schools. They are so full of themselves and every stupid decision they've ever made in regards to helping Board bureaucrats, teachers and their unions; is it even possible for them to shift direction or gears when change is desperately needed? For that matter I'd be interested to know if the successes that were written about in today's Waterloo Region Record at St. Aloysius School will be built upon by the separate school Board.

Today's article in the Record is titled "St. Aloysisus finds its way back to math success". The formula includes cooperation between the provincial testing agency, the school board and the teachers themselves. The usual excuses regarding immigrants, social economic factors and Englisg as a first language were alll rolled out at St. Aloysis. Despite those factors the students are now thriving both in mathematics and improvements are also being seen in reading and writing. This is a success story and it needs to be studied and emulated throughout Waterloo Region.