Monday, February 25, 2013

Why Don't We Just...

...tie funding to attendance rates?

Ottawa fights charge it discriminates against aboriginal kids

I know. I know. They'll just fudge the attendance stats. Been there. Seen that.

Did I ever tell you about the time I taught in the first Band-controlled school in Saskatchewan? The Director of Education, a white guy who was an early member of the Indian Industry, gave all the teachers notebooks in which to record attendance. His excuse was, they had been unable to obtain the normal school register books in which attendance is normally recorded. At the end of the year, we handed in the notebooks, where attendance had been dutifully recorded, and the Director organized a little army of recorders to transfer the data to the real register books, fudging the stats while doing so. All's fair in love and the Indian Industry.

This guy went on to teach at the University of Saskatchewan, but not until after he had successfully run for election under the NDP banner and became the Minister responsible for Northern Affairs, where, of course, many Indians lived and still live. God only knows what other scams he pulled off.

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