Some might be wondering about the young man who is the president of the Federation of School Councils.

April 30, 2013 - a bit easy on the public education system and perhaps some would say a bit naive.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2013/04/30/nl-school-councils-president-teenager-430.html

My my it did not take too long for this young man condemning the public education system, the government and going for the jugular of the cozy set-up of the NL education system, the booze parties, and how very little of the education funding actually reaches the students of NL. Mind you, it is vindication for the parents who have written letters for improvements over the years for their children’s education. Bitter sweet, to hear it from a 19 year old because the NL education system has always denied the charges of parents.
http://www.theaurora.ca/Opinion/Letter to the Editor/2013-05-13/article-3246802/Education-cuts-will-have-longterm-impact/1

On May 16, 2013 - the NL public education system gains a new nickname - new ayatollahs of education. Well suited, if anything the new transition team for the super board of appointed trustees behaved and act like ayatollahs, defending their actions and policies of what amounts to big reductions in overall quality and education services to students.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2013/05/16/nl-ayatollah-jim-bennett-house-516.html

On the same day of May 16, 2013 another story of the teachers, with some interesting information that confirms the fears of many parents, forcing the experienced teachers into retirement by any means. Another death stroke for rural schools in so many different ways…..“However, Hoskins said that her professors have told them that there are 1,000 teachers in the province who eligible to retire.”
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2013/05/16/nl-teacher-job-fair-516.html

Essentially the NL public education K to 12 system is being transformed to one of blended learning on steroids, and let the mutations fall where they may on the backs of the students, their education and their futures. Booze parties withstanding, the young man who is president of the school councils has just scratched the surface and I do hope he is listening to the veteran parents of the plans that are afoot with the new ayatollahs of the appointed super school board of the province, being paid a handsome salary, directing the travelling support staff travelling from one school to the next, and never having a place to hang up their hat to write out their reports.

So after reading the few news reports and I tried to be brief, but the new ayatollahs at the NL education ministry and the super board will still be having their booze parties but within the privacy of government offices and homes celebrating their little victories of reducing education services so their infant and child - Nalcor and Muskrat Falls can be fed. All done at the expense of the public, their children’s education and the profession of educators.

To which I must question, why all the teachers’ unions across Canada have remain silent on what is happening in NL, and more so when the ayatollahs of the NL government are determined to devalued a teacher’s worth by devaluing their skills, abilities and experience to the work of directing students to various web sites, and tell the students that they have to learn the knowledge on their own. Its why I said its blended learning on steroids, because it corrupts learning across the span, and in the end destroys the public’s ability to provide a quality education for one and all.

I predict that homeschooling will blossom along with private tutoring that probably will benefit the soon to be forced to retired teachers, and who knows probably a few private schools will blossom in the communities that have shuttered schools. Its why I am so glad that its my youngest child’s final year, in a system that denied her simple reading remediation services. So glad, because under a super board, there will be no child receiving any of the reading, writing and numeracy remediation, because all the money being saved supposedly, will not be going to the schools but to other places in government and of course there is the booze parties that must be paid.