Parents, teachers say Toronto schools already struggling as board mulls big cuts

[shockedcanadian]

Do you know what budgets NEVER have to make cuts? The Security Industrial Complex.

What a system of winners. Massive, bloated, dishonest threat manufacturers while we can't educate our kids to compete on the global stage.

Do NOT emulate us. Our decline is guaranteed.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/tdsb-parents-teachers-reaction-proposed-cuts-deficit-next-year-1.7525551

Sandra Huh, a parent whose son is in Grade 7 at a TDSB school, said a lack of provincial funding is undermining public education.

"I do think this is really an attack on the students themselves," Huh said.

'Everything is being chipped away,' parent says​

Huh, whose son is autistic, said he is already not receiving enough support through special education. And when he does get support in the classroom, it is the bare minimum, she added.

"Everything is being chipped away," she said. "Schools are absolutely important. We can never spend enough money on education, but we are certainly not spending enough."

The debate about cuts is happening as the TDSB ponders options to balance its 2025-2026 budget.

The board faces a $58 million deficit next year. At the same time, the Ontario government is finalizing its newest budget, to be delivered May 15, and the TDSB has indicated it is hoping that the province will spend more per student.

 

[Concerned American]

Do you know what budgets NEVER have to make cuts? The Security Industrial Complex.

What a system of winners. Massive, bloated, dishonest threat manufacturers while we can't educate our kids to compete on the global stage.

Do NOT emulate us. Our decline is guaranteed.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/tdsb-parents-teachers-reaction-proposed-cuts-deficit-next-year-1.7525551

Sandra Huh, a parent whose son is in Grade 7 at a TDSB school, said a lack of provincial funding is undermining public education.

"I do think this is really an attack on the students themselves," Huh said.

'Everything is being chipped away,' parent says​

Huh, whose son is autistic, said he is already not receiving enough support through special education. And when he does get support in the classroom, it is the bare minimum, she added.

"Everything is being chipped away," she said. "Schools are absolutely important. We can never spend enough money on education, but we are certainly not spending enough."

The debate about cuts is happening as the TDSB ponders options to balance its 2025-2026 budget.

The board faces a $58 million deficit next year. At the same time, the Ontario government is finalizing its newest budget, to be delivered May 15, and the TDSB has indicated it is hoping that the province will spend more per student.

They should offer a degree in how to navigate the freeway system through downtown Toronto. LOL, I've never seen anything like it before. Amazingly, we somehow got through it, but I never want to try it again.

 

[shockedcanadian]

They should offer a degree in how to navigate the freeway system through downtown Toronto. LOL, I've never seen anything like it before. Amazingly, we somehow got through it, but I never want to try it again.

We call them highways here for the record. Yeah, we have really bad traffic in Toronto. Many times sport teams have to walk to the arena since the bus can't get through. Sad.

 

[Concerned American]

We call them highways here for the record. Yeah, we have really bad traffic in Toronto. Many times sport teams have to walk to the arena since the bus can't get through. Sad.

We also have highways, but we differentiate with the size. Freeway came into the lexicon in the 60s when CA started building multi-lane, divided highways that were free to drive on as opposed to the turnpikes back east that you have to pay to drive on. I've just become accustomed to calling any multiple lane divided highway a freeway, LOL, including turnpikes.

 

[SweetSue92]

Do you know what budgets NEVER have to make cuts? The Security Industrial Complex.

What a system of winners. Massive, bloated, dishonest threat manufacturers while we can't educate our kids to compete on the global stage.

Do NOT emulate us. Our decline is guaranteed.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/tdsb-parents-teachers-reaction-proposed-cuts-deficit-next-year-1.7525551

Sandra Huh, a parent whose son is in Grade 7 at a TDSB school, said a lack of provincial funding is undermining public education.

"I do think this is really an attack on the students themselves," Huh said.

'Everything is being chipped away,' parent says​

Huh, whose son is autistic, said he is already not receiving enough support through special education. And when he does get support in the classroom, it is the bare minimum, she added.

"Everything is being chipped away," she said. "Schools are absolutely important. We can never spend enough money on education, but we are certainly not spending enough."

The debate about cuts is happening as the TDSB ponders options to balance its 2025-2026 budget.

The board faces a $58 million deficit next year. At the same time, the Ontario government is finalizing its newest budget, to be delivered May 15, and the TDSB has indicated it is hoping that the province will spend more per student.

I'm going to say something very un-PC.

Many special needs parents are real pieces of work.

They really believe that public schools are based on a customer satisfaction model and sincerely believe if they just "go to bat" for their kids, some miracle will happen.

For instance: Special Ed programs being understaffed. Um, Ashley, you bitching a fit daily about your kid not getting his "services" is driving people out. Who's waiting around to teach your kid now? Oh, no one.

Society is stupid, and even more so in schools I'm sorry to say.