Time for The Tide To Turn

I was so heartened the other day to see an open letter from a Port Coquitlam school administrator to school parents, detailing the increasing fiscal constraints placed on the public school system here in BC by the BC Liberal party. Their school annual budget plummeted 87% between 2002 and 2014, from $181,000 down to a paltry $23,000 This is a district that had 30,000 students when Hubby worked there in 2007. Were he still working there, he would have been laid off this year, along with the 800 other teachers that had less than 8 years' experience in their district. To put it into perspective, that would be the equivalent of laying off EVERY SINGLE TEACHER in our community of 70,000 people.

This government is not putting families first. It is systematically destroying public education, attempting to break the teachers' union, and using shock doctrine tactics to prime the voting public for a privatized education system that creates a larger divide between the "haves" and "have-nots", and removes choice for children whose families cannot afford the private system.

Can we afford the BC Liberals?

Tertius explains his sign to the art teacher at his big brother's new middle school