20 September 2007

Dumbing down with Dalton

Another case of the Fiberals promising voters the sun, the moon and the stars...
Fewer than two-thirds of Ontario's 145,000 Grade 6 students have met provincial standards on the latest province-wide tests – well short of the Liberals' promise in the last election to have 75 per cent of Grade 6 students clear the bar.
Maybe Dalton should be spending a little more time "celebrating intelligence and achievement" instead of simply ensuring public school libraries have multiple copies of "My Two Dads."
However, only 64 per cent achieved at least a B – the provincial standard – in Grade 6 reading in the latest scores released yesterday and 61 per cent got a B or better in writing – results unchanged from the year before. In math, 59 per cent got at least a B, down 2 points from the previous year.
Our children deserve better than this.

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RELATED: Natives ask... where's McGuinty now?
Three programs at First Nations Technical Institute (FNTI) have been postponed because of what the school calls a dire ongoing funding shortage.

Officials with FNTI met with Chris Bentley, Ontario Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities, following at Intelligencer article in July. They got a listening ear but no real solutions, Thompson said.

The province, which funds Ontario's other post-secondary schools, says aboriginal affairs are a federal matter.
Yeah Dalton, it's always somebody else's fault, isn't it?

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