Time past due for Ford government to hold DSBN accountable: reader

Dear Editor, Several letters regarding the new West Niagara Secondary School and its principal, Mat Miller, have already been written.

Across Ontario we see a radicalization in our education system by school boards and teaching management, like principal Miller.

Three major factors are at play here.

This increasing radicalization comes at a cost for students, who have to deal with many social issues instead of being focussed on the basics, which are crucial for their futures. And their parents, whose right to be involved with their children’s education, is bit by bit taken away.

The DSBN is a bloated unaccountable semi-political entity, which has grossly mismanaged its budget for the new WNSS, but it also showed gross incompetence in squandering $20 million on the school’s contaminated soil as one reader pointed out.

Yet, in spite of all this and more, they were not held accountable and had the gall to ask for another budget increase of $38 million in hard-earned tax dollars from the Ford government.

The DSBN’s total budget is now over $580 million. This is an education system gone rogue.

The Ford government is allowing this mismanagement from the DSBN to continue and is catering to a worsening education system instead of standing up for students by holding schoolboards accountable for wasting taxpayers’ dollars in these difficult economic times.

Rob Janssen, Lincoln

Dear Editor, Seriously?

What a joke it was to read West Niagara Secondary School principal Mat Miller ducked accountability by attempting to blame a childish decision on a fake cost of $300 regarding the students’ grad photos.

I understand you never did charge them to run the photos, but even if you did, $300 is a ridiculously low sum to have 200-plus grad photos displayed in a very proud family moment.

I have not received the other paper for more than a year and have never seen it on our street, so I don’t know if they published the photos or