Both Hudak and Tahkar reveal a fundamental misunderstanding of how schools work. Teachers forced to work after school will do the absolute minimum. Their heart will not be in it and they will very quickly show that it does not wirk.

Even so, when on a legal strike, teachers can remove whatever services they choose. If the school board does notlike it, their only legal,choice is lockiut. Naturally they are reluctant to do this because to parents it means, “the teachers would not do report cards so we closed the school”.

Yes, and it is the kind of attitude that Joe reflects, is driving the push for radical change and transformation of the public education system.

Add the ongoing saga of the Toronto District School Board, the largest school board in Ontario - What can be said about that one? Just the run of the mill of power struggles which stakeholder will be the top gun in commanding without being held accountable. But if caught with their pants down, are sent packing with a generous severance package and a new job.

Or Wynne’s comments in the Star - “How did the school situation get so messed up?

Those of us who argued that collective agreements should be negotiated, and that that was possible given our relationship, never dreamt that we would need to use legislation. But when some of the tacticians saw that maybe this could be something that could be used in a byelection, for example, it spiraled into a worse conflict. It was a tactic that didn’t and couldn’t work. It ran counter to our brand and it can’t happen again.

If you didn’t like Bill 115, why did you vote for it?

If I hadn’t voted for Bill 115, as I’ve said to my teacher friends and colleagues, the premier would have had to ask me to leave cabinet. And I determined that it was more important for me to be there to continue to voice my opinion than to vote against the bill and leave cabinet. But that does not mean that the decisions were all good. They clearly weren’t.”
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1315467—ontario-liberal-leadership-candidate-kathleen-wynne-i-want-to-be-the-social-justice-premier

Yes, we need radical change one way or another. Students only have one chance, and they don’t get to have the many possible second chances of politician ministers making light of poor policy decisions and governance by justifying - ‘If I didn’t vote for it, I be kicked out of the cabinet.”

With Wynne’s logic - it would not be hard to imagine what social justice would look like under her new billing as “I want to be the social justice premier”. If fate awards Wynne with the premier chair, I can smell the civil rights and human rights civil suits increasing ten fold in Ontario. Why? Being best friends with the teachers’ union brass, giving them everything they want will do it, and more so if Wynne does become premier putting everything back in place for the teachers, by removing services and funding from other places in the government. It will leave the residents of Ontario holding the bag, trying to sort out if it is reasonable to pay higher taxes, for fewer services to pay the high-priced help of education for labour peace.

Social Justice Premier indeed!

Driving what move for radical change? Did I miss something? Everything is just fine except the government just yanked $1.6 billion out of education.