Now If We Could Only Get Trustees Some Training In Fiscal Matters

The market is working

August 27th, 2008

And it’s bound to piss some people off.

Ontario’s Catholic schools do a better job than public schools in helping children overcome the demographic roadblocks to learning, says a provocative new study prepared for the C.D. Howe Institute.

Using a socially sensitive yardstick that measures how well schools do given the background of their students — income, parents’ education, mother tongue, number of times they have moved — the report finds the majority of school boards that best beat the demographic odds are Catholic.

The report suggests Catholic schools may be more motivated to improve the quality of education because if they don’t, Catholic parents can switch their children to public schools — a market pressure it says public schools do not face.

Competition. Making your kids smarter, one subject at a time.

In other words, it’s time those whining moonbats in the public school unions get off their hopeandchange high horses and start teaching kids something a little more useful than “diversity” and “hugs”. How about, say, math or something?

Posted by: Right Girl