What kind of an ass backwards province do we live in? We can go from talking about spending hundreds of millions on a new building one week, then giving our MLA’s and Mayor nice salary increases the following week and now this week I hear that our school board may have to take a 22% budget cut… Does this sound wrong to anyone else? Who knows maybe I just don’t know enough of the particulars but as it stands right now it just sounds moronic. —Someone needs to get our priorities straight…
This article appears in Dec 2-8, 2010.
It’s getting so bad now that Principals have to buy their own yellow Crime Scene Tape.
Wouldn’t it be nice if the schools had all the money they needed, and the senate had to hold a bake sale to pay for their limos.
Vote Hugo, King of the World and it will happen, but I suspect, not before.
They can buy that yellow “Do not enter” tape at Dollarama.
o.p., i said it before and will say one more time. YOU GET WHAT YOU VOTE FOR AND ELECT. no more, and far less than you what you would like in a politico. just another set of pigs waiting in line for their turn at the money trough. which by the way, is called our pockets. i long to see the day, that any politico says, no, we don’t want a raise.
HAHAHAHA, oh Hugo — you made my fantastically horrid day a whole lot brighter with that comment.
I’d totally vote you KOTW for that one.
Is Alexa ‘shocked and appalled’ at this reactionary government slashing public services ?
Been here for 16 years, and the BS doesn’t change day in and day out.
I gave up on this place, you should too!
But but it’s only an “exercise”. How much this “exercise” will cost us will be………. (enter cost here).
But don’t worry, I’m sure they have a PHD in charge.
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hey hey wayward bitch welcome back to whoville^^
Another vote for Huge from me!
Huge…I meant Hugo.
I think my mind is in the gutter.
I’m glad that I could lighten your day a bit PK, hope your weekend is better.
My weekend starts tonight;)
Huge Hugo, I kinda like that, thanks NTH.
lucky bitch huge hugo^^
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HP- you actually got me panicked about it being Friday today. I thought I messed up this week too…:-[
too?
I seem to have given myself an extra Fridays last week. Somehow I lost Thurs. Very strange???
I’m Ok now, I’m hanging on to this Thurs.
What’s wrong is that that hypothetical 22 percent cut to the education budget (over the next 3 years) was so kneejerk automatically denounced as wrong.
For starters, the number of enrolled students *has* dropped 10 percent in the 6 years from 1999/2000 to 2005/2006. It’s kept on dropping in the 5 years since. It was dropping before that, in the ’90’s. These are all numbers from StatsCan, available as various “Summary Public School Indicators for the Provinces and Territories” reports.
In other words, if you started from now (2010) and worked back, you wouldn’t have to go back to even 1990 before you found a 22 percent decrease in NS public school enrollment. And yet it’s not even on the table – as far as self-interested parties are concerned, like educators – to consider decreasing the budget? That’s what’s wrong.
Education costs should be proportional, all other things being equal, to the size of the student population. And considering that teachers are *not* teaching our students better, they can hardly argue that part of the difference is due to the requirement for costly educational infrastructure like IT. I’m not sympathetic to the energy costs argument either – I could have sworn that for some decades now we have been consolidating our schools into many less and supposedly more efficient mega-schools. You mean that’s not costing less either!?
Fuck it. Let the educators sweat thinking about a 22 percent cut over 3 years, and then nail them with 10 percent just to get them started. They’re making out like they are already slashed to the bone, and on that they are so full of shit.
Wow, realist, spoken like a true POW
In downsizing government, we could start by getting rid of most of the school boards we presently have .
We have 1 school board for French that covers all Nova Scotia.
But insead of 1 English school board…we have 8 !
How much does it cost us for 7 extra english school boards ?
Cut them I say… cut them & cut the MLA’s in half, better yet one MLA for each County & 1 MLA for the City of Halifax
While were at it cut the HRM councilors to half its size.
Simple & It would probably save us 10’s of millions of dollars a year.
A school board member makes the princely sum of $10,000 which means we would save about $400,000 if we had one English school board.
One MLA for each county is a stupid idea because some counties have very small populations. HRM has 38% of the provincial population.
That one school board idea would cost millions because the boards outside HRM would demand the same level of services and then say they don’t want to pay higer property taxes.
I am in favour of fewer municipalities. We have 8 school boards so I’m voting for 8 municipalities.
That really would save millions. BOOM – 47 CAOs out the door, each one one costs more than $50,000 a year in salary & benefits.
Just think of 8 councils with 8 members. Today there are over 400 members of councils, BOOM – a saving of at least $5,000,000 a year.
Well Joeblow, I’ve seen in print that Strait Regional School board Super Jack Beaton, he gets somewhere in the $110,000 to 120,000 a year !
That’s 1 Suprevisor out of 8 English & 1 French !
I don’t have any on hand reports from any of the other boards…but something tells me if 1 is getting that so are the others !
Cutting government and spending is the best thing anywhere can do! But, alas, politics and special interests always come into play, and then not much changes.
It should be interesting to see how “cage-rattling” Rob Ford does with all his promises in Toronto, and Nenshi in Calgary. If only Halifax had a mayor even half as pragmatic and interesting, but I don’t think the suburban voting base of HRM would go for it.
Wow, you guys are all over the place!
The public service union must be willing to bargain as 1 unit with the province who “will grow a set” and hold to 22% cut to wages. Leave benefits alone but find a group policy that could cover any nova scotian.
As to education It’s 2112 people! Get with the program!