Throughout Canada provinces have democratized education by putting parents into positions of advocacy and decision making. From elected school councils in Quebec, to parents having direct access to the Education Minister in Alberta.

Ontario has chosen a path that puts more power in the hands of the ministers office. Board powers have been eroded since 1998 and the latest amendments to education through Bill 98 have further eroded parental and district powers.  The result is a  governance model that limits your ability to advocate on the following issues: 

• CURRICULUM  that promotes division amongst Boards, educators and parents

• CLASSROOM  conditions and climate infrastructure

• CREED Accommodating religious freedoms

• CURBING  low level disruption in classes to systemic levels of unmanageable violence against students and staff

• CENSORSHIP of opinion
  

There are 700 trustees that are front-line involved in often operational decisions, billions of dollars of investments, and they are responsible for literally millions of children. Overtime Boards have distant themselves from the public that they serve and the results are apparent:   

• Poor accountability

• Weak governance

• Code of Conduct offensives

• No taxing powers

• Trustees are elected with abysmally low turnouts

• School boards as stepping stones in their political careers, leaving a mess in their wake.