建议看看下面这篇19年轰动首都的极左记者发表的 ”RICH SCHOOL POOR SCHOOL“的报道吧。
这几个极左记者,把矛头指向几个RICH 的”富“小学(他们的统计就在小学层面), 大谈机会不均等,有的很富,有的很穷。就是典型的偷换概念。 在公立学校的旗帜下,学校的经费基本上是按学生人头数量给的。 不会因为你这区的家庭收入高,或你这区的排名高就有”公立“资金的倾斜。这和中国有极大的不同。之所以有的学校富,是因为学校所在社区的家长的私人捐赠或贡献。。。。 把这扯进社会不公来批判是非常不合适的,文中还鼓吹”富裕“的学校把社会捐赠得来的给社区捐赠能力弱的学校分, 就类似当年中国文革那时的气氛。
谢天谢地,这些极左记者没有盯上中学,如果被盯上了,WEST CARLETON, LISGAR, NEPEAN HIGH, EOM, LDH 可能被抄家。
How private money affects the education of children in Ottawa's public school system
ottawacitizen.com
Rich school, poor school: Private money affects Ottawa's public education system
How private money affects the education of children in Ottawa's public school system
Author of the article:
Jacquie Miller
Publishing date:
Aug 08, 2019 • August 8, 2019 • 21 minute read
Rojan (L), Adam and Rasham (R) play with the legos at Charles H. Hulse Public School. PHOTO BY JEAN LEVAC /Postmedia News
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At Charles H. Hulse PS, the school council’s budget was $1,500 last year, collected from provincial government grants. That helped pay for a multicultural potluck supper, a family night so parents could see how their children learned math, and a hot-dog day. Many of the children at the school on Alta Vista Drive are newcomers — council meetings are translated into Arabic, Somali and Nepali — whose parents cannot afford to contribute money to the council.
Across town at Broadview Public School in McKellar Park, the school council raised $127,043 in 2017-18, the latest year data is available. A dance-a-thon, silent auction, book sale and other fundraising events ensured the council could purchase everything from Chromebooks to yoga lessons for kindergarteners.
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Parents have always peddled pizza lunches and staged bake sales to raise a few dollars for their children’s school. But the amount of cash collected by elementary school councils at Ottawa’s largest public school board is substantial. Councils at elementary schools reported revenue totalling $3.94 million in 2017-18.
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The privately-raised money is poured into “extras” like field trips and art workshops. But it also pays for what some might consider basics, from library books to science equipment and play structures.
In neighbourhoods where parents can contribute and have the skills and contacts to more easily raise money, students reap the benefits. The fundraising slows to a trickle at schools in low-income neighbourhoods.
The discrepancy between schools is huge, an analysis by the Citizen shows.
The lowest revenue reported was at Arch Street Public School in southeast Ottawa, which took in $500.
Eight school councils reported $2,500 or less a year in revenue. Half of those schools, including Arch Street, don’t even have councils, but the schools received government grants that would normally be given to councils to foster parent participation and small projects.
On the other end of the spectrum, five school councils in Ottawa raised more than $100,000.
(See how individual schools ranked here)
Akhile takes a look at many of the comic books available for sale at the 53rd annual Rockcliffe Park Book Fair. The popular event raised $50,000 for the school council last year. PHOTO BY MICHAEL ROBINSON /(Michael Robinson / Ottawa Citiz
A Citizen analysis of four years of statistics going back to 2013-14 shows similar trends, with annual revenue from school councils ranging from as little as $6.20 to as high as $154,522.
In order to examine how private money affects the public education landscape in Ottawa, the Citizen spent months collecting data on 113 elementary schools for the 2017-18 academic year, using statistics supplied by the school board, supplemented by interviews with school council members and minutes of council meetings. Because schools with higher enrollment can be expected to raise more, we also calculated the amount raised by each council per student. Broadview, for example, may have raised the most money, but it’s also the largest school in the board with just over 1,000 students. Rockcliffe Park Public School raised the most per student, at $290.62, while the lowest was again Arch Street, which reported revenue of $3.01 per student.
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It’s a snapshot of one year, and there are some anomalies in the data. Some councils reported unusually high revenue that year, for instance, because they received grants for a major project such as a new play structure or because of lunch programs that bring in a lot of revenue but have a much lower net profit.
But the data give a broad indication of the disparity in fundraising — and reveal what critics describe as a tiered public education system, one which further reinforces the disparity that exists between children whose parents have varying levels of income and education.
And the gap in fundraising, critics say, also lets the province off the hook for funding education and forces principals and teachers at schools in less affluent neighbourhoods to spend time applying for government and private grants so their students can have a playground or take field trips.
“There’s an inequity that happens when schools in more affluent communities are able to fundraise, while schools in less affluent areas never could,” says Erica Braunovan, a trustee at the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board who co-hosted a 2017 meeting on the topic with former-trustee-turned-Capital-ward-Coun. Shawn Menard.
“It creates an inequity in the educational experience of students,” she says. “The educational experience should be the same across the province. We shouldn’t have some schools that have one Chromebook for every four students and one school that has Chromebooks for every second student.”
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Principal Irene Cameron at the kindergarten playground at Carson Grove. PHOTO BY TONY CALDWELL /Postmedia
The situation in Ottawa reflects a wider trend at schools across the province.
The 2019 report by the public-education advocacy group People for Education found that the top 10 per cent of fundraising elementary schools raised 33 times the amount raised by the bottom 10 per cent; the previous year it was 37 times as much. The group has been tracking fundraising at schools through an annual survey for two decades, and the amounts continue to climb at elementary schools. (The survey includes all types of fundraising, but in elementary schools most of the money is raised by school councils.)
The issue is key at a time when the provincial Conservative government is making spending cuts, including reducing the grants allotted to educate each pupil.
However, exactly how deep funding cuts will be in future budgets is unknown — and educators can only guess at how funding gaps created by private fundraising will grow in the coming years.
And this leads to a variety of pertinent questions around an issue that is both complicated and controversial.
What is the value of school council fundraising? Can or should it fill any gaps in government funding? And what can be done about the fundraising disparity between schools in rich and poor neighbourhoods?
Parents can’t be faulted for helping their children by volunteering for the school council, says Annie Kidder, the executive director for People for Education.
“It’s a great, amazing job that parents do on school councils, to make the school the best it can be and a big part of that appears to be fundraising,” she says.
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“The thing about fundraising is that it is a very easy to understand way to be involved in your child’s school. It can be fun. Things like the spring fair, or whatever, are great community events.”
However, Kidder says it becomes problematic when there is such a variance between schools that can raise virtually nothing and those that can raise $100,000 or in some cases as much as $200,000 a year.
“That is when we start to worry about the basic principle of public education, which is that every child is supposed to have a fairly equitable chance to succeed, and equitable access to a similar quality of education.”
At the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, the top 10 per cent of fundraising school councils raised 38 times as much as the bottom ten per cent in 2017-18, our analysis found.
At Rockcliffe Park Public School, in Ottawa’s toniest neighbourhood, the school council reported $120,026 in revenue in 2017-18. That is $290.62 for each student.
The money ensured all students at Rockcliffe Park enjoyed a trip to the Ottawa Children’s Festival; paid for $5,449 worth of books and reading resources for the library and classrooms; and provided a subsidy of nearly $10,000 for the graduation ceremony and trip to Montreal for Grade 6 students, among other things.
Rockcliffe Park’s council also spends money to help needier schools, including six $1,000 grants to schools for literacy programs.
The council’s largest fundraiser is a book fair that attracts people from across the city. The fair raised $50,000 that year.
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Queen Elizabeth Public School is only four kilometres away on St. Laurent Boulevard, but it’s in another universe when it comes to fundraising.
Queen Elizabeth’s council reported $1,875 in revenue in 2017-18. That is $5.99 per student. The council revenue included $1,500 in provincial government grants, according to minutes of council meetings that give a glimpse into activities that year. Parents sold baked goods at a movie night and raised $165. Council spent $226.04 to buy pizza for Meet the Teacher Night and lunch snacks for students. A charitable foundation subsidized a “Scientists in the School” event one evening.
At one meeting, the Queen Elizabeth council decided to spend $15 a month for three months to buy fruit for the school’s breakfast club, then “evaluate the success of this approach.”
Some parents from schools in wealthier areas who attended the 2017 meeting trustee Braunovan co-sponsored to discuss disparity in school council fundraising were surprised at the wide gap between schools, she says. The goal was to raise awareness of the issue among members of the public and candidates for school board trustee, Braunovan says.
Participant Larry Shamash says it worked.
“It opened my eyes to the inequities,” says Shamash, the current co-chair of the council at Elmdale Public School in the Hampton Park neighbourhood.
Elmdale council, which reported $104,169 in revenue in 2017-18, has a strong tradition of parental involvement, he says. “We have a lot of great parents who put so much time into the school.”
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Some of the fundraising disparity is due to momentum, with some schools having a strong history of fundraising, Shamash says.
However, the “unfortunate truth” is that in richer neighbourhoods parents have more money and time to devote to school council, he says.
At the meeting he met council members from schools where “parents were struggling just to make the budget for paper, for photocopying … they were working two jobs, some of them had a day shift, they had a night shift, they were just unable to put the time in.”
The fundraising disparity is not healthy or fair, says Shamash. It raises wider issues.
“Surely the question is: why should school councils really be needed to raise money? Councils are there to help direct some of the education and the issues around the school, but suddenly they raise a little bit of cash and for whatever reason, funding from the ministry is not there, and all of a sudden it becomes a necessary part of the school. And I wonder whether that is really something that should be happening.”
Melissa Jennings, the current chair of the school council at York Street Public School, says the meeting made her realize “how far behind we were.”
“We are just trying to get a few people to a meeting and they have these big organizations with very engaged parents. They were planning a lot of extras, when we are just trying to get the minimum.”
At York Street, that means ensuring that students have food and warm clothes and “stay at some level near their peers in math,” she says.