In 2007, Mario Dumont said: “It is time for the government to start trusting the governing boards, which are best placed to make the right decisions based above all on the interests of the students. »
What has happened since then?
We have continued to centralize to, in recent years, abolish school boards, create school service centers, then appoint directors who in turn will appoint school directors.
At the same time, we are negotiating 200-page agreements to regulate the work of teachers, we have bought the autonomy of schools, and the government wants us to believe that it can resolve everything in the middle of a press conference on a Sunday.
Have you heard complaints of bullying from private schools? These schools are solving their problems. But I have not heard any governing board president speak out on the issue of bullying, nor even any school service center director, even though he is the only one who can do so in the context of Bill 40.
The solution is simple: we must give public schools the same autonomy as that available to private schools, a way of enhancing the work of all education agents who work in schools.
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