Radio and Newpaper Ads for School board!

[SLN]

Why is the Limestone District school board wasting precious funding on radio spots and newpaper ads? I find it to be an outrageous waste of money and effort.

I happen to send my daughter to a private school but it is not because I forgot that there was a public board. I send her there because there is better student suprvision, more opportunity for her to belong to clubs, it is nearby our home and because there is not an overgrown bureaucracy handing down rules and preventing logical solutions to problems from being developed.

The public school board ads, in order to be effective, would have to promise that they have begun to discipline students once again, that they have common sense policies with regards to lunchhours in the bad weather, that they have replaced the crossing guards whose jobs were taken away, that they have capped class sizes at 20, and that they have brought back the school nurse - among other things.

Imagine running ads. What a waste.

(man I hate typing the word "bureaucracy')

[macphail]

Interestingly, my co-worker and I were discussing this last week.

Did school board trustees run on a platform promising better advertising to try and disuade parents from enrolling their children in private schools? ;)

If anyone has an answer as to why they run advertising, I'd be interested in hearing it.

Cheers, Derek

[SLN]

glad it hasn't gone unnoticed.

Incidentally, I didn't get to vote on school board trustee because the poll minders didn't give me the right paperwork. That was in the HighGate Park area when I lived there. I hear I wasn't the only one to whom that happened, nor was my station the only one which forgot to give out the papers.

And I've written to the school board to ask them about it. We'll see what sort of response I get.

[macphail]

I know one of the candidates who was affected by the mess up at the polls. He could have forced the issue and possibly another election, but he felt it wouldn't have made enough of a difference to warrant the time and expense for all involved.

Cheers, Derek

[SLN]

just to be clear I wrote to the SB about the ads, not the election. -S

[macphail]

I wrote to the SB about the ads
Have you heard back from the school board yet? This subject came up in a conversation I had with someone yesterday.

Cheers, Derek

[bill]

I am the candidate who Derek was talking about. :cool:

I have mentioned this to the director and trustees of the Algonquin and Lakeshore Catholic Board. I also included the Minister. Of course I did not receive a response. I felt that the excuse that they have no funding to provide a quality education in a safe and fun environment in some of the local schools, which happen to rank the lowest in the province was a terrible response when I see the ads on tv, on the radio, and in the paper. It all boils down to $$$$$$$$$$$$$$. The more kids they have, the more money they get for their empire. :mad:

The ballot problem is a whole different issue.

[Emerald]

Could someone please tell us what the ads were about? I haven't heard any.