Letters to the Editor, Oct. 25, 2026

LEARN FROM OTHERS

We have long had private schools that parents have sought to place their children in, with a loss of confidence in our public education system contributing to their motivation. Test results and academic proficiency of students from these schools in different subjects are, as far as I am aware, recorded and reported. As well, parents talk. Anecdotal evidence shouldn’t be hard to find. If there are schools outside of the public system that are succeeding in teaching math, doing it differently, one would think that these would be the first ones that the education bureaucracy would be looking at for the purpose of improving public school math education. It’s not clear to me if this is happening, or if not, why not? And if it is, what’s being taken from those programs to improve student success? What I doubt any parent or student wants to hear is that some cabal of civil servants and administrators is wasting time and money trying to reinvent the proverbial wheel.

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Bill Cord
Toronto

(The Teachers’ union are change adverse and seem allergic to the idea of improvement especially if the ideas come from private sources)

FOOD FOR KIDS

Why do we rely on charities and the city to fund school nutrition programs when schools are supposed to be provincially funded? The federal government also transferred over $100 million to the province, earmarked for child nutrition. Seems like the province is the only one not pulling its weight here. If we don’t have money for child nutrition in this province, why do we have money for luxury spas? Where are my tax dollars going if we still need charities to cover school lunch programs?

Kamin Peyrow Lee
Toronto

(We should start at the beginning – where is all the money being spent? If not on this, then where? An audit would give us some answers)

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