Giving more money to public educators is like giving more money to poor relatives. You care about their difficulties, but you know that the reason they’re experiencing difficulty is for the same reason they struggled when you gave them money the last time, and a new sacrifice won’t change a thing.
I am opposed to giving more money to public schools until those schools can tell me what specific and measurable things they are going to do with the money we give them, until schools can identify specific and measurable means of proving positive outcomes.
Increased funding of schools under the current system is a waste, because schools do not have specific strategies in mind for improving education performance. They can and will only say, when nothing happens, that we need to give them more.
Phil McMichael
Vancouver
