Insulting Ontario teachers isn't an education policy, by ian_doha
Teachers may not view themselves as part of the elite — a bogeyman Ford prefers to keep amorphous — but for voters who enjoy watching Ford rail against those who sip pink champagne, an attack on a well-regarded authority figure satisfies the same visceral urge to take someone else down a notch.. For them, the notion that public school teachers are unqualified and incompetent validates their decision to abandon the public system.
Allowing Ford to focus the conversation on the tiny minority of teachers who would not pass his math test plays into his hands. Treat teachers like garbage, and you can be certain that fewer of the most qualified people will choose teaching as a career.More troubling is the bad faith in Ford's pretence that his proposal would somehow improve the talent pool among Ontario's teachers. If he truly believes the problem with the education system is that the teachers are terrible, he won't attract more qualified people by wielding a cudgel.
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