Vancouver Sun Dear Sir: Re: Horgan vows end to portable classes in Surrey About replacing those portables in Surrey with brick-and mortar schools: Aren’t there other alternatives? The cost for these permanent structures is astronomical! The model adopted by Nevada is worth examining. Their circumstances are similar to Surrey’s —… Read more
Private/public debates
Using Polls As A Tool Of Totalitarianism
Polls Can Easily Become A Tool Of Totalitarianism BC is experiencing a deluge of organized attacks and destabilization maneuvers to force more funding for government schools. Even though throughout the rest of the world the same constraints on public spending are being felt, and school spending is seriously being… Read more
Public Education Does not Mean Government Schools
Continuing to add to Private/Public debate…This SECOND essay was published by our local newspaper education blog on the topic of meeting with the Minister of Education. The issue arose, again, limiting funds to private schools and giving them to public schools. BIG Difference between Public Education and Government… Read more
State Schooling vs Public Education
Private/public schools issues keep recurring. These debates are healthy but they can be divisive and unhelpful at times. It should be very instructive to explore these issues more thoroughly in the 21st Century as we consider different viewpoints through various lenses — history, economics, politics/ideologies, etc. I will be adding… Read more