POSTED RESPONSES TO A COLUMN IN TORONTO'S GLOBE AND MAIL
This is a great idea, but it won't happen.
First, for now, Dalton the Magnificent has spent Ontario silly on GM and Chrysler.
Second, and more important for the long term, the teachers' union will never let this happen on its turf.
Already, the head of the teachers' union has spoken against it.
The burdens the teachers' union would place on a program like this would make its costs impossibly high.
Until a politician is ready to take on our Public Teachers' Guild, education can show no growth and imagination, precisely what this program promises.
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"...let them be with their moms (or dads)."
Comments like this show no understanding outside the writer's very limited life experience.
You might think it was 1954, and Ozzie and Harriet were hanging around the house all day, just waiting to make Kool-Aid and help with homework.
Seventy percent of women work today.
We also have "families" where children are almost things tolerated rather than precious objects, mothers who've had children with three or four men and are not prepared to devote themselves to mothering. This is a major problem in neighborhoods like Jane and Finch where so much hideous violence has happened.
A program like this would help them all.
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"I'm stunned....."
Yes, Mike, you are.
