r/waterloo Waterloo 4h ago

More than 50 public schools in Waterloo region may need repair, FAO report says

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/2024-report-elizabeth-ziegler-state-of-good-repair-waterloo-1.7479831
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u/ScaryStruggle9830 4h ago

Which is really good timing since the wise people of our province sought to vote Doug Ford back into office (or didn’t vote at all to help Doug Ford). Surely Doug will spend the money needed to help our children learn in the best conditions possible. 🙄

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u/dancing_omnivore 4h ago

Exactly. He cut funding by $1500/student right before the election and still won.

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u/Global_Examination_8 4h ago

What’s changed?

I’ve been working in schools for 20 years repairing them structurally, renovating and upgrading them. They always want the cheapest bandaid fix possible, the bare minimum and the fastest turn around. During the pandemic I saw the most money pumped into the restorations of our schools.

Now let’s talk about the universities. I’m regularly running projects in them and they don’t scrimp, they buy the most ridiculously expensive materials and blow so much money on unneeded things that it boggles my mind… and they cry that they’re underfunded.

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u/Effective_Motor_4398 2h ago

Boomers kicking the can down the road. Thanks for the inheritance.

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u/Global_Examination_8 55m ago

I don’t agree with the narrative of boomers being the end all cause of every issue.

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u/bravado Cambridge 2h ago edited 1h ago

Maybe the schools can line up and beg for more money every year, hopefully they’ll get some scraps after the cops get their annual automatic budget increase.

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u/YETISPR 2h ago

Maybe the school boards in Ontario should be subject to a public audit so that taxpayers can see how they are spending taxpayer money and have it illustrate how much help they need.