LOW ENGLISH & MATH SCORES AN UNFAIR TEST OF EDUCATION SYSTEM

Look I mean really. What other government departments or ministrys have to suffer the embarassment of a score card being publicly produced showing the failings of that government body? Therefore why should the Ontario Ministry of Education as well as all the school boards in Ontario have their failings so publicly demonstrated? Today's Waterloo Region Record again takes our education system to task and this time it's in relation to Applied Math and Applied English in Grades 9 and 10. The article is titled "Ontario test scores low in applied maths, English".

Let's also be fair here. We don't have enough jobs for University graduates much less high school grads so therefore it's much easier to blame the victims when they haven't completed high school by telling them it's their lack of education holding them back. Of course it isn't but governments and politicians are masters of passing the buck. Therefore what I'm saying is that governments don't really want or need highly educated citizens. Who the hell will do the janitorial work, collect garbage, drive trucks, shovel asphalt and work in the few remaining factories in our society?

Therefore the reality is that stronger students based on socioeconomic status, great genes or sheer luck will always do well academically despite mediocre teachers, courses and school boards. Poorer students again based upon the luck of the genetic pool, poverty or whatever other factors come into play will not. Our politicians are at least smart enough to know this. Therefore their incentive to make everybody better academically is zero. Politically however they have to at least pretend hence that is wjust like our other government ministries such as Environment, Labour and Transportation. It's all for show folks. This society desperately needs people to do the real work not just academics and paper pushers.