Torontomatic

With the entire buzz about faith-based education, it seems that we have not dealt with the underlying problem facing education. The funding formula is truly something that must be looked at. Although I may agree that the status quo cannot continue, in reference to funding only Catholic schools, my worry is that the PC Party of Ontario has not taken time to look at the funding formula? What will happen, as parents take their children out of public schools and place them in faith-based schools? Will the funding formula continue to apply to ALL schools? I suspect that there would be a lot of Catholic High Schools closing also, since a lot of parents, who are not necessarily Catholic, send their children there. Now I wonder if a new school is available, will parents prefer it and cause a mass exodus of children to other faith-based schools. The NDP seems to be the only party with a platform devoted to public education, leaving the debate over faith-based schools alone. The PC’s and the Liberals have interesting ideas and plans. Albeit, I do not understand what Dalton McGuinty was thinking by attacking faith-based education, while doing a press release from a Catholic school.

” Premier Dalton McGuinty threw a Hail Mary pass into the faith-based school funding debate this morning at St. Augustine’s Catholic High School in Markham.”

It seemed kind of ironic and odd to me. How does that play to the viewer on TV? Now that the cookie is out of the jar this issue will not go away. Maybe this was their master plan all along? Maybe they are all working together on this? Get us talking about it and when we are angry enough we may just vote in an NDP government. I think we did that before? Maybe with a majority they will just remove funding from all Catholic schools or merge them into one public educational system. Hey, its not NDP policy, but who really knows anyway. All bets are off when you got a majority government and I don’t think anyone thought they would have won the election last time. Pipe dream or nightmare?

By: Torontomatic