After Monday nights municipal elections it looks like The Thames Valley Board will look like it did before the election with the exception of one. Bill McKinnon replaces James Stewart in Oxford. Stewart didn't run figuring after the debacle of the Norwich High School closing he wasn't going to have a shot at winning. Unfortunately the other Oxford Trustee Graham Hart who also voted to close the High School in Norwich and also voted to close schools in Woodstock, Ingersoll, Sweaburg and Beachville, got reelected. Congrats voters in Oxford you have elected two lap dog trustees that will do anything the big wigs in London want them to do, even worse they use the tagline it's to better your childrens education.
The only real problem is that since almalgamation in 98 came along the big cities have bullied their way to get new schools and fancy upgrades at the expense of the rural areas all the while having trustees bullies into voting it in.
It's time some of these rural voters wake up before it's to late. With Hart and McKinnon you have voted in two yes men, not anywhere on their campaign info did they state that they would give the parents of Oxford a bigger voice, they did not say that they would be more accountable to the people they represent. Both of them painted rosy pictures of education and with McKinnon's campaign leaflet he imagined a pipe dream, In case you haven't noticed Bill, Auto Jobs are not coming back to Ingersoll and most of the new jobs that do come to Ingersoll or anywhere else in Oxford sure as hell won't be union like all your auto buddies that elected you to your seat and in the end the pipe dream that Thames Valley would love all the parents to think.
As for the newest ARC that is being done in Norwich. I think we all know how it's going to work out, the recently closed high school was deemed surplus which the board says they are trying to sell to the township of Norwich, meanwhile they keep their fingers crossed that Norwich Township mayor Donald Doan tells the board to fly a kite(which he should), then they can pull the once deemed surplused building off the market close every school in the township with the exception of East Oxford and house all the students from the schools in the old high school. The nice thing about the committee on the newest Norwich Arc has come prepared and I get the feeling that they are not about to play nice with the board on this one, Here's hoping they win out or someone other than the township buys the old highschool to put a little more egg on the boards face.
There is a way to fix all of this mess regarding closing schools unfortunately most trustees dont have the balls to do it. First off quite blaming the province, yes we know Dalton's liberals dont know their heads from their asses so blaming them wont get you anywhere. All I want is a trustee to stand up and say do we really need as much wastefull spending as there is. The first cut I would make would be the $500 that every parent council gets, they have enough of their own money they blow needlessly without another 500 to waste. Next step call every senior management type into to my office and have them explain what their job duties intail, seems to me that there is a awful lot of these type that end up making over $100 000 a year and really cant justify to many why they have their jobs. Next up have every board employee take a wage freeze, and each trustee take a decrease, I know they have a important job but the example they would show by taking a wage decrease would be applauded by the tax payer.
I know this is just my thoughts on the Thames Valley Board but these ideas could be implemented throughout the province when it come to how School Boards should be run and maybe 4 years from now some trustee that wants someone's vote will wake up and see the light before it's to late.
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