'I see no comments in the media about how wrong it is for the NDP government to ask school districts to fund recent provincially negotiated wage increases and increased expenses due to inflation without increasing funding to school districts.'
Maybe residents of Prince George should have been voting in a provincial by-election this weekend considering how ineffective our two local Liberal/BC United MLAs have been in holding the NDP government to account on major issues affecting our city.
Whether it has been the overflowing hospital, another surgeon leaving the city because of not getting enough surgery time or the lack of funding for public education, you can barely hear a whisper from our local MLAs when these should be meat and potatoes issues that are easy for an opposition MLA to build public momentum behind.
Mike Morris out of the two should be more free to speak his mind given he is not running again but I see no comments in the media from him about how wrong it is for the NDP government to ask school districts to fund recent provincially negotiated wage increases and increased expenses due to inflation without increasing funding to school districts who don't have other sources of revenue to draw from other than unspent budgeted money from previous years.
At a time when many of our schools are struggling with numeracy and literacy outcomes due to staff shortages, increased demand without increased funding for in class support, therapy and intervention services and the lingering impact of COVID lockdowns and inflation pressures on families we need the NDP government to step up and provide the necessary funding and direction to school districts to protect our most important resource.
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