HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2011-11-24, Page 11THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2011. PAGE 11. THE EDITOR,
Rural citizens of Ontario and even
some of their city cousins have been
ARCed, a.k.a. whitewashed. In
short, they have “been had”.
In days of yore when bandits rode
into town brandishing guns, they
lived outside the law, following rules
of their own making, and, any town
of any worth, they believed, was
theirs for the taking.
Did our forefathers stand by
quaking, saying, “There’s nothing
we can do?” No! They, to a man, at
once formed a posse and with an
honoured sherriff, rode out to catch
the culprits.
Today, the Accommodation
Review Committee (ARC) gangs, a
law unto themselves, “ride” into
town with stealthy moves. It’s not
the banks they hit, but the heart and
soul of our communities. They
snatch our children away without a
thought of the effect that action has
on families and communities. They
cram our beloved children into buses
so they’ll get no exercise or
sociability on the way to school. The
air polluted by bus exhaust fumes is
what our children will have to
breathe. We, the citizens, will foot
the bill for these events we did not
and cannot condone.
Politicians and citizens no longer
carry six-shooters. Today the
weapons of choice are votes and
words. Did the politicians in
Queen’s Park notice that our local
MPP and the former Minister of
Education, although they were
tossing “education” dollars into our
communities, were not returned to
Queen’s Park? Surely they have
noticed that and wondered why?
Possibly, it’s because rural people
like to spend money wisely and like
to be consulted honestly about needs
and changes to their schools. Money
need never have been thrown away
on ARC meetings whose decisions
were made long before people took
time from work and other
obligations to meet and to be
ignored and insulted by some
members of some school boards and
sometimes even their staff. As a
result, the voters spoke and still the
people hear of no moratorium on
school closures and no changes to
the Education Act that would put a
rein on wild west behaviour of
boards and give citizens resource to
help if they needed it to defend their
communities’ schools.
Where is the pioneer spirit that
made our communities so strong?
Where is the courage to stand up to
something so terribly wrong?
“It’s not the children only
Who are being ARCed away,
But the very heart and soul of us.
Get up and have your say.
Appoint Dalton McGuinty,
sherriff, to form a posse strong,
and with his local and education
deputies
immobilize those ARCers who’ve
done so much harm.
Buy a stamp, or write an e-mail;
use the weapons we have at hand.
Be a strong supporter of your
school and its community.
Grandma, Grandpa, Mom and
dad, and every kid,
write to the “sherriff” premier and
his “deputy”.
You’ll be glad you did.
Ask Premier McGuinty to
introduce a New Education Act that
makes School Boards responsible to
the communities they are supposed
to serve. That rogue School boards
must be stopped is one exceedingly
troubling fact that must be enacted
by our “posse”.
Write to say, Enough! Enough
already! It’s the year 2011. We don’t
expect perfection but we do expect
respect, from everyone elected to
serve us.
Write to say, I care; we care, and
we want our children educated here
not there.
A concerned citizen of Ontario.
Writer implores citizens to take action
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