Province Called On To Make School System More Accountable

The President and CEO of Corporate Research Associates suggests the province’s education system could stand a few drastic changes.
Don Mills says every school in the province should be rated by standardized test scores and then examined on the quality of teaching.
Mills asks how many teachers have been fired over the past 10 years due to poor performance and guesses it would be zero. Mills says he suspects 10 to 15 per cent of teachers in the province should be out of the system while young teachers doing supply work are stuck on the sidelines because of older teachers hanging on far after their prime.
He says teachers who are demotivated and disinterested should be replaced but can’t due to effective tenure. Mills says schools and teachers need to be held accountable if students are not performing at a provincial standard.