EDUBABBLE AND OR "FLAVOUR OF THE MONTH"?

Today's Waterloo Region Record carries the following story titled "Year-round schools catch trustees' attention". There's a third option. Perhaps this story released to the Record is no more than a trial balloon. Maybe a few trustees out of desperation to change the channel on their infighting simply want to distract parents. It's all hard to say especially if you've ever had direct dealings with the Waterloo Region District School Board. The only good thing about them was when my youngest son finished high school and we didn't have to deal with various filth wearing suits and ties any longer. That was a day of rejoicing.

Now the next issue of course for the Board will be dealing with the self-serving Teachers' Union. Why exactly do I think that this idea is dead in the water now as it has been for the last fifty years? Oh yes, it's because the teachers have been brainwashed into believing that they are all professionals under extreme stress doing a job that nobody else (without a teaching certificate) could possibly do. The mere fact that pedophiles had thrived in the educational system for many decades without being held accountable certainly shouldn't dissuade them of their God complex. The mere fact that Waterloo Region students have been performing sub-par for many years in English and Math also won't dissuade them of their inherent superiority and entitlement to two months off every summer.

As hoped would reducing the summer break to one month from two improve student learning? Hard to say but certainly full day kindergarten has turned out to be nothing but glorified day care. Students do have a small edge in Grade 1 but the positive effect is gone by the start of Grade 2. Based upon that wasted taxpayers money let's take a huge grain of salt with any new claims by our school board.