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My family ties to the public education system in Alberta run quite deep. My great grandfather was a school trustee in the early 1900s. Other relatives were esteemed university professors, including medicine, engineering, and human ecology. I also have other relatives who are school teachers. A sibling is an employee at the ATA.

The ability we have to read, write, and solve mathematical problems, are because of teachers. Doctors, nurses, engineers, and a whole bunch of other professionals had teachers teach them those skills, which benefit us immensely.

It's horrible how the UCP pretends to care about public education in Alberta.

As a side note, it would be awesome if we could take courses from Lisa Young, Jared Wesley, Andrew Leach, and Trevor Tombe.

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Attacking teachers and the public education system in Alberta has been a tried and true hallmark of politicians, such as Ralph Klein, and the UCP are doing it too.

Ralph Klein gave so many teachers pink slips, and schools were grossly underfunded. This led to serious problems, such as overcrowded classrooms.

The UCP have treated teachers, and school support staff in Alberta like garbage, and have underfunded the public education system in this province too. Now, coincidentally, before her leadership review, Danielle Smith is trying to trick Albertans into thinking she cares, by dumping this money into building new schools for Alberta. They need teachers, and other staff, otherwise they will be big empty boxes.

Danielle Smith is handing more money to charter schools, as well as to private schools, and to other schools outside of the public education realm. That's not a good thing to do, because the public education system is still suffering from funding being diverted to these other schools.

At one point, Danielle Smith was a public school trustee. Her ideas were so out of touch, that the Alberta PCs had to can her.

What a big mess we have.

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