Thread by @KJ_King16

(THREAD) Today, the Minister of Education @Sflecce announced "the Better Schools and Student Outcomes Act," promising transparency and accountability by taking power away from school boards to make decisions free from transparency and accountability.

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1/ These new changes bring about the opportunity to monetize our students and "surplus" resources. 

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- If you’re wondering what the difference is between this program & the pre-existing co-op, essentially, the Education Act, requires students to stay in school until they’re 18 or graduated. This new bill allows employers to hire child labour at a low cost.

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- Along with monetizing students, we’ll be seeing the use of "surplus" assets as real estate. The government will use these unused schools *like the greenbelt* for housing that’ll be likely unaffordable and long-term care facilities that’ll likely be underfunded.

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- Sending developers cheap and unrestricted high school-educated labour while selling public assets to private buyers is all part of the privatization & private interest driven plan. Take more from the public and cover it up with investment cuts. 

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2/ The Minister will be enforcing an autocratic agenda on school boards, effectively taking away the ability of trustees elected by their communities to do the work we need them to.

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- I don't need to go into detail about why we don’t need the ministry's supervision in our school boards; we already saw it waste money and accomplish nothing in Peel, and what mandates could the Minister have for us when we can see what the Premier has for him?

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3/ When you want to "modernize" the curriculum, you do so by consulting those who learn it and teach it; the ministry did neither.

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4/ What benefits will be come from the $100+ million after withholding billions since forming government? How will we meet needs with 50 cents extra a day per student? How will we support students when they hire less than we lose? We won't; that’s the plan.

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- "Boards need to refocus on what matters, which is student achievement" - @Sflecce Another example of the Education Minister only acknowledging boards when he needs to shift the blame off his government's underfunding.

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- If you want to help students succeed, fix our learning environments. Decrease class sizes, propose strategies on staff retention AFTER consulting boards and unions, stop cuts to programs & boards, and meet with students to find out what we need. 

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From bill 124, to bill 7, to bill 28, & to bill 98, when will this government realize that making moves against the public and then lying about having our best interests in mind doesn’t go unnoticed, and the money saved in the short term will bankrupt our future.

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