Ingersoll Boundry Meeting

There is one piece of news coming out of Ingersoll this week, they are holding a meeting Monday Nov 15th at VMS to discuss the boundary lines for the schools once the closures kick in. For the most part I think the boundary lines they have now are fine, with the exception of some of the old VMS area where it's closer for these kids to go to Harris Heights than it would be for them to go to Princess Anne. If you want to attend just to hear what they have to say or to raise some questions the meeting will take place at VMS at 7pm

Things are about to get mighty Interesting....

Looks like the Norwich ARC is ready for a fight after they recommended keeping all 3 Norwich area elementary schools open. The Board wants to close the 3 and move them into the now defunct high school. Should make for a awful interesting meeting when they vote to close, hate to say it but the non Oxford Trustee's will most likely go along with what the board wants to do because it's not in their back yards so it's not their problems, Oxford Trustee Graham Hart who loves to go along with what the board says and will probably yet again go with what his constituents want and will probably vote to close the schools and I would imagine regardless of what Bill Mckinnon does it wont matter the Board will have gone against yet another ARC's recomendations and vote to close more schools in Norwich Township.
When the dust has settled and the outcome goes the way I think it's going to unfortunately go will someone then please tell me why the ARC process is relevant when good people volunteer their time to be on these committee's and put forth alot of hard work to come up with the recomendations that they do only to have the School Boards which supposedly value thier opinions go totally against what the ARC recomends. Problem is the whole ARC reeks of total BS and a waste of taxpayers time and money. It's time someone at the Ministry of Education figure that much out and either stop this way of deciding on School closures, or go back to the way it was before almagamation and eliminate these super boards that seem to favor urban a heck of alot more than rural areas.
After the release of Ontario's new Progress reports I think it's safe to say that my estimation last year when they announced to do away with fall report cards isn't to far off. They fail to really tell you the whole story and from Parents I have talked to seem awfully confusing. The comments sections have been pretty much limited to canned messages that don't tell you anything important that you really know. Here is a better idea, lets just eliminate the early progress reports and just go to a parent-teacher conferences systems. The Teachers would be able to give you a much better picture of the areas of improvement that a student could use over anything in a progress report. Yet again Dalton another dumb idea and even more reason why the voters of Ontario should put you on the unemployment line come next October.