Candidates Forums

[ALLFARMER]

With the election less than a week away, I was just wondering if any of you have attended candidates forums in your area.
I have always found it strange that school board elections never seem to attract much interest and more than 50% of our property taxes go to the school requisition.

[cowman]

Perhaps Emerald, it is because in reality the schoolboards are basically a joke? The province sets the school taxes, the school board negotiates with the province wide union, everyone cuts basically the same deal and then the province throws in the extra money to make it go! In reality the Province and the union make all the decisions and quite frankly the school board is just a waste of money so some old busybodies can pretend they are doing something! Sort of like being elected dogcatcher in a town where there are no dogs?

[cowman]

cowman do you feel the same about the Health Region Boards ?
School Boards each must decide on some issues such as bussing, closing schools etc., so it is nice to have common sense people making those decisions.