Comments on: Public Schools on the Decline - Is It ALL Demographic? http://www.thepolitic.com/archives/2007/10/29/public-schools-on-the-decline-is-it-all-demographic/ Conservative group weblog that publishes daily commentary on political events and topics affecting Canada, the United States and the world. Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:08:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Shane Edwards http://www.thepolitic.com/archives/2007/10/29/public-schools-on-the-decline-is-it-all-demographic/#comment-170823 Shane Edwards Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:23:32 +0000 http://www.thepolitic.com/archives/2007/10/29/public-schools-on-the-decline-is-it-all-demographic/#comment-170823 HA! That's awesome! Brilliant one that! Good on ya David. Yep. Failed product of the public education system am I. Can't deny it. Enjoy your gloat. It was most amusing. HA! That’s awesome! Brilliant one that! Good on ya David. Yep. Failed product of the public education system am I. Can’t deny it. Enjoy your gloat. It was most amusing.

]]> By: David Elliott http://www.thepolitic.com/archives/2007/10/29/public-schools-on-the-decline-is-it-all-demographic/#comment-170804 David Elliott Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:25:17 +0000 http://www.thepolitic.com/archives/2007/10/29/public-schools-on-the-decline-is-it-all-demographic/#comment-170804 Your school must have been in decline while you studied there, People are having fewer--not less--children. Fewer is used when the noun can be made plural. Less is used when the noun isn't made plural. More coffee, sir? You stand as a testament to the failures of the education system in your jurisdiction or as proof that you can slither through with a "good-enough" grade system. Your school must have been in decline while you studied there, People are having fewer–not less–children.

Fewer is used when the noun can be made plural. Less is used when the noun isn’t made plural. More coffee, sir?

You stand as a testament to the failures of the education system in your jurisdiction or as proof that you can slither through with a “good-enough” grade system.

]]> By: philanthropist http://www.thepolitic.com/archives/2007/10/29/public-schools-on-the-decline-is-it-all-demographic/#comment-170793 philanthropist Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:49:15 +0000 http://www.thepolitic.com/archives/2007/10/29/public-schools-on-the-decline-is-it-all-demographic/#comment-170793 Kids getting a poor education for billions of dollars - that's 'traumatic' for all of us. Education systems across Canada exist solely to provide union jobs to otherwise unemployable arts grads. Ontario teachers are instant millionaires when they retire, and now they own that province, so they'll only get richer feeding off its withering carcass. Fire the lot of them - and then get the best people for the job of teaching kids. Kids getting a poor education for billions of dollars - that’s ‘traumatic’ for all of us.

Education systems across Canada exist solely to provide union jobs to otherwise unemployable arts grads.

Ontario teachers are instant millionaires when they retire, and now they own that province, so they’ll only get richer feeding off its withering carcass.

Fire the lot of them - and then get the best people for the job of teaching kids.

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