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A Bottomless Pit
So the Ontario premier finds it “unacceptable” that Ontario parents are having to fundraise so that their children’s schools can buy essential supplies such as textbooks. (As an aside, it’s quite amazing that he made this announcement solely in reaction to a report from his pals at People for Education. We wish we got this kind of reaction when we ask for more important things like the use of proven teaching methods and school choice.)
And if you are wondering why the schools don’t have enough money to buy essential supplies, given the fact that the province has increased their total funding from $16,257,066,889 in 2003 to $20,790,348,435 in 2009 (an increase of almost 28%), then we refer you to this CBC news story about how the Toronto District School Board just spent $125,000 on a “conference” at the Air Canada Centre where their employees enjoyed performances by, among others, teenage jazz singer Nikki Yanofsky and the Canadian Tenors. That $125,000 would have bought an awful lot of textbooks!