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You can’t make this stuff up
The cover story in this week’s Macleans Magazine is 99 Stupid Things the Government Spent Your Money On. Although there are only 18 listed on this web-site so far, there’s already lots to shock and appall, but still to come is #50: B.C. school boards paid an estimated $350,000 to mail out blank report cards after teachers refused to fill them out as part of a job action. Now, it’s true that the grade 12 students’ report cards were filled out, but the report cards for all the other students were mailed out blank. Some were even sent out special delivery! The math, by the way, includes only the postage costs - it does not include, for example, the cost of printing the blank forms or the time spent by office staff assembling the mail-out.
I’m sure the whole exercise makes perfect sense to someone - and I’d love to have been a fly on the wall in the room when the decision was made. H/T DH