So the high priced suits in the Thames Valley School Board only months after going against the Accomodation Review Comitee in deciding to close the high school in Norwich, thier back at it again seeing how many people the can piss off in Ingersoll and Beachville by closing 3 schools in Ingersoll and closing the school in Beachville, and adding on to Harris Heights, and believe it or not actually building a new school in Ingersoll.
I went to the first meeting in Ingersoll and a few things actually got me thinking, First off the Education system needs a major overhaul, There are way to many people that work for the school board that do Sweet dick all, they could cut half the office people in the school boards. Less staff on payroll means more money for schools. Second, Go back to the old school boards that they had 10 years ago, I'm sure not every school board is run aimlessly by idiots, but In my kids school board Thames Valley they seem to only give a hoot about London, if you live out in the rural area too bad we'll close your school and send you to the city. If the school boards were the old ones, the rural schools would stand a fighting chance. I would get rid of ARC comitees altogether, they are a waste of time and money, why you ask?, well in every ARC comitee that TVDSB has ever done no matter what kind of recomendation has ever come up with the Trustees have always gone woth the original proposal was regardless of the ARC input sounds like a waste to me.
I have one more thing I would love to see outlawed in schools is student councils who are nothing more than popularity contests who are given way to much money to spend unwisely. Lets say a high school has 950 students, the fee that they have to pay in is 25 a student that works out to a total of 23 750. Would someone please explain to me why they need that much money, here's a thought lets rename it a School Improvement council, you have 3 reps from every grade for a total of twleve and the School's principal will oversee it and have veto power on on every decision reached by council so if there was a pointless item to spend money on it would never see the light of day, and I would throw a provison in that if there is any money left at the end of the year it would be paid back to the students who paid in, it would eliminate Student Councils sitting on the money at the end of the year. The group would be responsible for doling out the money on what improvements the school could use, i.e text books, school sports uniforms, sound equipment and things like that actual building improvementswould be the School boards responsibility thus also eliminating spending like the IDCI SC did one year dumping 12.ooo into a new gym floor that wasn't needed and another 2.000 into cover also not needed. I have put much thought into this idea and think it would work if given a chance to be implemented, and it would be a whole lot better than the brokrn system we have i place now.
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