The duty We recently learned that Minister Bernard Drainville’s school catch-up plan would not be renewed. This welcomed plan nevertheless involves many stakeholders in the field and it produces excellent results.
An April 2024 report from the minister’s own office speaks volumes: “175,000 students had benefited from tutoring services and […] nearly 158,000 young people had received an educational support service funded under this plan”, as reported in a text published in these pages (“Calls for a “recurring” school catch-up plan are increasing”, The duty from July 5).
Here, I can’t help but think of our great Charles Tisseyre, who had the immense generosity to tell us about his dyslexia! He told us that he had a lady by his side in the first year, a lady who helped him and allowed him to then follow his little friends. What an admirable person he has become and what an exceptional career he has had!
Many others like him have also made history: Albert Einstein, Steven Spielberg, Pablo Picasso, Agatha Christie…
The plan will end on December 31. […]
How much talent will our Quebec society deprive itself of? Don’t we want to innovate and stand out rather than rely on foreign expertise?
The school catch-up plan amounts to 300 million.
But when you really want to, you open your checkbook: 11 billion for the battery industry, 2 billion per year for tax cuts, exploding bonuses at Investissement Québec, agencies multiplying, not to mention a 3e link that we can’t justify… a list that never stops growing…
Furthermore, this government refuses to see the pitfalls of our three-tier school system.
Mr. Legault and Mr. Drainville, is it not time to move from words to actions and make education a real priority?