Let’s ask ourselves one simple question: Do our schools do the best possible job of preparing our children to live and work in an increasingly competitive world? The Liberal government has created a system that puts their union friends and the bureaucracy ahead of our children’s education. We now spend $8.5 billion more per year than in 2003, while at the same time test scores are down in key areas like math, and there are 250,000 fewer students.
To further compound the problem, in too many of our schools parents can't get parent-teacher interviews outside school hours and kids cannot count on sports, arts and academic clubs after the final bell - things that are essential to the learning experience.
This Paths to Prosperity white paper – the ninth in a series – proposes bold ideas that would ensure Ontario students can reap the benefits of a first-class education. Some of these include:
Giving principals and teachers more control over in-school decisions;
Boosting student targets and efforts in math, science and financial literacy; and,
Providing boards and principals with the flexibility to reward teachers for participation in before-and-after school activities, through less supervisory time and relief from other duties.
We can no longer afford the Liberals' “not bad is good enough” attitude.
Ontario can offer better jobs for young people, but we need to start with an education system that prepares our kids for the real world.
Sincerely,
Tim Hudak, Ontario PC Leader
To read and share Paths to Prosperity: Preparing Students for the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century at www.ontariopc.com/paths
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