Imagine if govs spent the past year with massive economic stimulation packages to purify school air, to expand classroom size, recreation facilities, and playgrounds in schools around the province. Imagine the economic boom, the community benefit, and the improvements to safety.
Then imagine that #Covid19 wasn't a major problem in schools--and what would you have? You'd still have state-of-the-art schools. So even in the worst-case scenario, you have great improvements to local schools. In the worst case, you've got great schools and safe kids and staff.
This would be my question: why not make building world-class schools, unlike say, cutting their budget as the #skpoli gov did, a priority?
The fact that other economic actors--farmers and small businesses--received a great deal of support (and they clearly needed it) really points to the gov's priorities. ANd their priority is clearly not building high-quality public institutions or a world-class education system.
I also think that is the rub: the pandemic has demanded that civil society needs government protection in times of crisis. Govs have made protecting private entities (businesses for sure) a priority. But not our public institutions. That's disappointing and needs to change.
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