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• W319584349 abstract "Battle lines over who should have control of education have been drawn in Ontario. From the very first days after the Progressive Conservatives won the provincial election in June 1995 on a platform of what they called a common-sense revolution, skirmishes have taken place between the teachers and John Snobelen, the new minister of education and training. Snobelen, a high school dropout, is a very successful president of a waste-material trucking company and a management consultant. He believes that education should be run as a business. One of his first pronouncements, which raised the hackles of teachers, was that need create a crisis. Yeah, he said, we need invent a crisis, and that's not just an act of courage; there's some skill involved. Snobelen used business jargon describe what was wrong with the education system in the province. It is broken and needs fixing, he said. The Toronto Star quoted him as saying, Our challenge is participate as full partners in this new and exciting evolution of education into a real customer- and client-focused service. He referred students as clients, taxpayers and parents as customers, and teachers as the frontline service providers. His whole purpose in construing the education system as a service organization was to continue ask ourselves if could be giving our customers better value for their tax dollar. It soon became apparent teachers, administrators, school trustees, and many parents that the real Snobelen vision for education was reduce the $14 billion education budget by about $1.5 billion. The April 1997 passage of Bill 104, the Fewer School Boards Act, reduced the number of school boards from 129 66 and resulted in large savings. Many school boards were forced increase class size and eliminate junior kindergarten. Having taken $553 million out of education, Snobelen had sell education's consumers the notion that high-quality education could be achieved at still lower cost and that another $1 billion could be cut without harming the system. In order get parents and the business community on his side, he rushed Ontario's new curriculum for grades 1 through 8 into legislation in June 1997. Strict new standards will require students learn read, write, and spell earlier; more complex mathematics will be introduced into the lower grades; and children who are not academically prepared will not automatically move up the next grade. Many teachers welcomed the more rigid standards, but they were concerned about the speed with which these sweeping changes were take place - especially in light of the cutbacks in the school budget. Curriculum reforms were soon followed by the most notorious piece of legislation, designed escalate the mere war of words and name-calling into an all-out battle between the teachers and the government. The common-sense soon degenerated into the nonsensical revolution with the introduction of Bill 160, the Education Quality Improvement Act. Having attenuated the power of the school boards through amalgamation, the government set about doing the same thing teachers' professional organizations by stripping them of their hard-won victories, amassed over the years through collective bargaining, for reduced class sizes, for adequate preparation time, and for control of the conditions of teaching and learning in classrooms. Why are Ontario's 126,000 teachers willing shut out 1.2 million schoolchildren in one of the biggest illegal strikes ever staged? Teachers are troubled over the sinister motives of Bill 160, which cedes the government complete control over education in the province. The measures contained in the bill will not only give the minister control of curriculum, the right set education taxes, and the right determine how money will be spent for education, but will also limit the democratic process so necessary in a free society and weaken the foundations of the education system, so that in a few years the entire structure might come tumbling down. …" @default.
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