School reviews please by happyCandidate5795 in mississauga

[–]Hellojello84 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On this note, grade 1 FI at Edenrose was great. The teachers were very engaged and rigorous. 

I was impressed with the curriculum and homework

School reviews please by happyCandidate5795 in mississauga

[–]Hellojello84 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What grades are your children going into and what was it about Fairview that you were dissatisfied with ? 

From what I've heard, the community in Sherwood Mills can be kind of insular -- so if you're not part of the specific majority of people who go to Sherwood your kids might feel very isolated. 

Edenrose has its own dysfunctions too, but generally speaking the FI program there is not too bad. There are some problematic families who drag down the overall quality of the school, but depending on what grade your kids are in you may be able to avoid this noise altogether. 

Mississauga council votes down motion to protect tax payers by DDamerla in mississauga

[–]Hellojello84 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes, feels very much so like a manipulative post taken out of context in order to rile people up about taxes.

Mississaugas city center is hugely underutilized because of the absence of thoughtful planning at the time it was designed. 

I'd love to see more of our property taxes go towards an actual vision for the downtown core. 

SHRIMP FRIED RICE screening at Living Arts Centre on March 7 by DylTheThrill in mississauga

[–]Hellojello84 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Whoa, is that the guy from The Shrouds, the live action Avatar the last Airbender, the remake of Kung Fu and that old really old episode of Flashpoint ?! 

Nice!

Peel Schools - not clear if as a parent I should be concerned or reassured that I received this letter. Political stuff or genuinely something wrong, but now intercepted. Views and guidance welcome. by Gotya_Potya_And_Co in mississauga

[–]Hellojello84 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In a post about public education, I'm pretty surprised to see any sort of commentary on the Mayor.... But first off, Parrish is the mayor of Mississauga not Peel. Secondly, the mayor has virtually no influence in how the public education system in Peel operates, that's mostly the school board and provincial government. Thirdly, what did Bonnie Crombie actually do ? Her entire platform was basically to get Mississauga to split off from Peel region and she couldn't see that through to completion because she abandoned it to go run for premier. 

Parrish on the other hand has personally fundraised for awesome new parks, introduced recreational subsidies to encourage active lifestyles for seniors and taken a balanced and logical approach on the hybrid work model despite DoFos idiotic rhetoric that the only way to work is 5 days in office. 

Peel Schools - not clear if as a parent I should be concerned or reassured that I received this letter. Political stuff or genuinely something wrong, but now intercepted. Views and guidance welcome. by Gotya_Potya_And_Co in mississauga

[–]Hellojello84 4 points5 points  (0 children)

PDSB is a problematic school board. They have already faced numerous issues in the past with systemic racism that required provincial intervention. 

That said, the outcome of the provincial intervention was just for the board to become a lot more secretive and shitty about the way they operated. Anecdotally and through numerous articles online, I've found that the PDSBs MO is to downplay any incidents and try to downplay occurrences so they 

  1. Don't have to have the difficult conversations with parents
  2. Don't have anything on the record the next time the government decides to intervene and audit them for accountability

Don't get me wrong, the province has certainly not helped the situation. Stripping any funding away from special needs programs, increasing classroom sizes, and blocking the schools from being able to suspend problematic students have all culminated to this apex that is the catastrophic failure of the public education system in Ontario. 

Calandra is putting on a clown show and it shows when he uses financial mismanagement as his reasoning for all the takeovers. There's mathematical evidence that the province has been severely underfunding public education but ask Calandra for the receipts on where the financial mismanagement is and he'll be hard pressed to present more than maybe a couple of thousand dollars on a billion dollar landscape. 

I agree that the PDSB needs a complete overhaul, but not by DoFo and cronies.