Could trustees be asking for their own abolition?
With two trustees elevated by the electorate to MPPs the Board must now fill in the vacancies.
It has two choices:
- Call for a by-election
- Appoint two people
Neither are great options.
A by-election would have a very low turnout illustrating the publics apathy for the roll, be expensive and look self-indulgent (there is no sign of provincial enthusiasm for some monetary participation) and could result in the election of people who could be not with the regressive program that the rest of them are used to.
But appointing would be an admission that the trustee’s roll is not significant enough to warrant a by-election.
Given the above, will it be long before the Province realizes that it would be cheaper to just appoint trustees. That way,QueensParkcould be assured that there could be no board based to opposition its plan to cut educational services to the majority of students. It also completely cuts out the supposed “will” of the people that elections are supposed to express.
So, what’s a poor trustee supposed to do?
Trustee Goodman is proposing appointments.
He states that it could save $500,000; so much for his belief in “student, and parental engagement” that he quotes in his motion.
I would not want to be a trustee again or would I?
I am filling out my application as I type this because being a trustee these days is great: your time is your own, it’s all indoor work and, best of all, no heavy lifting.
Not like the time when trustees had real taxing and therefore decision-making powers
