| Everybody
should remember that in the Stanley Park Zoo in Vancouver they allow 200
square feet per monkey; in Ontario they're allowing 100 square feet per
child.
Annie Kidder of People for Education |
| MCNABB SCHOOL IS BEING CLOSED BY THE OTTAWA-CARLETON DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD AS A RESULT OF AN INSANE ANALYSIS OF EDUCATION MADE BY THE TORY HARRIS GOVERNMENT. |
School closures product of crazy Harris numbers game: |
Schools must be closed as a result of new provincial rules about operating and capital costs. The new rules set capacity standards for schools and dictate how much money each board will receive for operating costs (heating, lighting, cleaning), serious repairs (new roofs and boilers) and new schools. To establish the loading capacity of each school, the provincial rule states that there will be 25 children in each classroom (22 kids for secondary schools). The rules stipulate that each of the following rooms are deemed to hold a class of 25 (or 22) students at all times: the art room, computer studies and family studies rooms, the gymnasium, science lab, lunchroom, music room and theatre arts room. All rooms are understood to be at 100-per-cent occupancy at all times. Real life never intrudes. Each space is always full -- the music room never has down periods when it might be empty, there's never a period when students are not attending class in the lunchroom, and classes are never smaller than 25. The rules say there is far too much unused space. The province provides no money for this surplus or unused space. The rules provide no money for new schools even where there is an increase in school age population, no money to replace older schools even though they only have a 50-year lifespan. Ajax mayor Steve Parish notes that portables are considered good classrooms under these rules. ............................................................. (Info clipped from John Sewell's column)
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--Harriscide--
The Harris Kremlin --
Inside Ontario's revolutionary politburo- by Guy Crittenden
The OFL on how
Harris killed employment
Scrapbook
of the Harris Cuts
The Evil Tower of
Tory Power
North Bay Days of
Action
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