Ontario’s education system continues to deliver. Unfortunately it’s delivering pain and frustration. But still, as we’re in Canada, nothing can be done, right?
Wrong. We could dig the hole deeper. One of my colleagues just said it was absurd to have Catholic schools upholding anything that even reminds anyone of Catholic doctrine and they needed to be abolished in the name of diversity. Or some such.
He was infuriated that it seemed impossible to remedy the odd situation that Ontario Catholics have choice and nobody else does. And I share his pain. But his solution was … taking away Catholics’ choice, too. Recalling Churchill’s point about the curse of socialism being the equal sharing of misery. Including a threatened strike unless we give the teachers even more money.
I generally like teachers as individuals and approve of their profession. But like police, for whom I also have very high esteem, officer, they are overpaid.
Not overpaid compared to wouldn’t it be great if we all had a million dollars. Not overpaid compared to “What fine people.” They all deserve to be wealthy, take nice vacations, retire comfortably and leave their kids well off. But there’s only so much to go around, and when police and teachers earn twice the average salary or more, and retire with three to four times the average pension, somebody equally deserving but less wealthy pays exorbitantly for their good fortune and it’s neither fair nor sustainable.
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