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Jul. 9th, 2018 09:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabby For anyone who thought that Drug Fraud wouldn't hack and slash at public education the instant he got his grimy little hands on it—damn, were you that naïve? While the Goat Farmer* in charge of the Ministry of Education promised a moratorium on school closures, we'll see how long that lasts. (Spoiler: They will be closing schools left, right, and centre.) And of course, there's the appointment of an actual fetus who has never set foot in a public school as her parliamentary assistant, which would be a much more dangerous situation if we didn't all know that he was going to take the opportunity to cruise the Village on the DL now that he's living in the big city, away from mom and dad.**
But let's see what the Tories have done with their 30 minutes of power so far.
They have scrapped a curriculum update that would include indigenous content and curriculum around Truth and Reconciliation. Oh, and ASL. Because mainly Tories want to fuck over indigenous people but they're not going to pass up an opportunity to take a swipe at Deaf folks while they're at it.
They have scrapped a modest fund to repair schools. Note that the fund was province-wide, for $100 million. The TDSB alone has a $4 billion repair bill. My old school had a hole in the roof. (My new one did too, but for different reasons.) Most of the buildings are crumbling. Quite a lot have asbestos.
A few weeks before school ended, someone put "sinks are for washing hands only" stickers over all the sinks, which I thought was a dig at the fact that I live in my classroom and frequently brush my teeth in the sink, but a co-worker pointed out that what it probably means is not to drink the water, because there is probably lead or some other contaminate in the pipes. I don't drink the sink water because I'm not a disgusting animal, but I do drink from the water fountain, and guess what? Same pipes.
Eventually, someone will die. Children have already been hospitalized as a result of how unsafe the buildings are. When that happens—and I hope to God it's not a kid, but I also hope it's not me—it would behoove the frugal taxpayers of my fair province to remember just what and who was considered expendable.
But, of course, it's not about frugality, or Ford wouldn't be rewarding his cronies with $348K patronage jobs. There's the party of fiscal responsibility we all know and love! Better stop that gravy train or we won't have anything to eat at the Ford family barbecue!
P.S. Where did Renata go? Is someone checking in on her? Is she okay?
* Sorry, that's an insult to actual farmers, who do important work. She managed a goat farm, which is different than actually being a farmer.
** Do I think every rancid homophobe is a closet case? No, some are just hateful fucks. Do I think Sam Oosterhoff, specifically, is a closet case? Yes. And every gay man I know agrees.
But let's see what the Tories have done with their 30 minutes of power so far.
They have scrapped a curriculum update that would include indigenous content and curriculum around Truth and Reconciliation. Oh, and ASL. Because mainly Tories want to fuck over indigenous people but they're not going to pass up an opportunity to take a swipe at Deaf folks while they're at it.
They have scrapped a modest fund to repair schools. Note that the fund was province-wide, for $100 million. The TDSB alone has a $4 billion repair bill. My old school had a hole in the roof. (My new one did too, but for different reasons.) Most of the buildings are crumbling. Quite a lot have asbestos.
A few weeks before school ended, someone put "sinks are for washing hands only" stickers over all the sinks, which I thought was a dig at the fact that I live in my classroom and frequently brush my teeth in the sink, but a co-worker pointed out that what it probably means is not to drink the water, because there is probably lead or some other contaminate in the pipes. I don't drink the sink water because I'm not a disgusting animal, but I do drink from the water fountain, and guess what? Same pipes.
Eventually, someone will die. Children have already been hospitalized as a result of how unsafe the buildings are. When that happens—and I hope to God it's not a kid, but I also hope it's not me—it would behoove the frugal taxpayers of my fair province to remember just what and who was considered expendable.
But, of course, it's not about frugality, or Ford wouldn't be rewarding his cronies with $348K patronage jobs. There's the party of fiscal responsibility we all know and love! Better stop that gravy train or we won't have anything to eat at the Ford family barbecue!
P.S. Where did Renata go? Is someone checking in on her? Is she okay?
* Sorry, that's an insult to actual farmers, who do important work. She managed a goat farm, which is different than actually being a farmer.
** Do I think every rancid homophobe is a closet case? No, some are just hateful fucks. Do I think Sam Oosterhoff, specifically, is a closet case? Yes. And every gay man I know agrees.
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