BC Government Tries to Save a School with No Kids

[Glacier]

http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news ... g-scramble

We need a better choices in this province. Education is underfunded, and the province seem in denial of that. Yes, you can say perhaps that salaries are too high, but it is the province that negotiates salaries, so they have no excuse. Did they just Google "schools that are closing" to try and solve the underfunding problems? It sure seems like it.

[Urbane]

http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/rural-school-districts-blast-b-c-premier-for-last-minute-funding-scramble

We need a better choices in this province. Education is underfunded, and the province seem in denial of that. Yes, you can say perhaps that salaries are too high, but it is the province that negotiates salaries, so they have no excuse. Did they just Google "schools that are closing" to try and solve the underfunding problems? It sure seems like it.

Scrambling at this time of year, adding money in an apparently haphazard way, after trustees have already gone through a long and exhausting process, shows a level of incompetence that goes way beyond unacceptable.

[Atomoa]

Its a election year. Goodies and victim stories for everyone!

[rustled]

Here in the Okanagan Skaha district, MLA Ashton is trying to direct the trustees' decision even though the trustees still don't have the information they need to make that decision. Meanwhile in the Okanagan Similkameen district, MLA Larsen has been given a position of responsibility for this "new" funding.

It's all political and it all stinks, very badly, them trying to buy us with our own money. They shouldn't be surprised if it comes back to bite them in the end.

[occasional thoughts]

But as was said over and over in another topic, people will hold their noses and vote for B.C. Liberals.

[flamingfingers]

^Stupidity Rules!

[occasional thoughts]

Stupidity, one of democracy's privileges.

[Urbane]

But as was said over and over in another topic, people will hold their noses and vote for B.C. Liberals.

For most it's not because they fail to see the faults in the BC Liberal Government. They're holding their noses because they do see those faults. When Carole James was leader the NDP was at least reasonably close to the centre and in my opinion the NDP would have won the 2013 election with her as leader. We'll never know for sure though because the rebels in the party staged a coup d'état and moved the party further to the left. Now we have the NDP, in the lead-up to next year's election, turning off union members and the public at large by opposing the Site C dam. It's frustrating for those of us who would like to see a change in government.