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To: VisionsOfSugarplums who wrote (233762)10/24/2025 3:30:24 PM
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The ATA is trying to give the impression that education has been cast to the wayside which isn't true. About 25% of our municipal taxes go towards education. We currently have the 4th highest tax rate in the province. We are approaching blood from a stone territory on that front. Our small (20,000) community has had two new schools in the past five years. I am confident that we aren't an outlier and similar construction is taking place around the province.

I have 4 grandchildren , 2 in town here and 2 schooling in Canmore. Their parents aren't bleating about class size and my daughters are quite outspoken. They, and their husbands, were educated in rural settings (BC,AB,Sask) which had its challenges (lack of interesting options was the big one) but people seemed to work together more 25 years ago. The special interest groups didn't have the main stage all the time.

My gut feel is a lot of the problems are in the major centres which are also where much in the inflow immigration has taken place including the non English speaking crowd. They are in enclaves, slow to assimilate and slow to pick up English. Not sure that it is the school boards responsibility to cure poor federal gov't policy but this is where we are.
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