Readers discuss hospital staff shortages, overbloated school bureaucracies and the controversial ArriveCAN app in the Letters to the Editor
‘A nurse can’t be everywhere’: Health care staff shortages prompt Ontario ER closuresWe must stop referring to nurses as heroes. I am in awe of the compassion of nurses; I want to drop the hero label because it creates an expectation that nurses will always be there, despite being overworked, unwell or under-compensated. Nurses often work too much, frequently for too little pay given their training and the conditions that they work in.
Jamil Jivani’s column keeps mentioning how these people are “rarely visible,” “operate in the shadows,” yet it is their policies and behaviour that are responsible for poor results. This is a huge waste and misdirection of taxpayer school dollars. Teachers are not the culprits for poor overall results. But their unions are part of the self-oiling special interest dynamic that keeps the system intact, regardless of results.
It was William J. Bennett, a U.S. secretary of education in the ’80s, who famously called these personnel “the Blob” . He said that since 1960, the number of bureaucrats had soared compared with the number of teachers. Our Canadian data would likely parallel this. Getting rid of this Blob would accomplish two welcome benefits: 1) Considerable relief to provincial budgets and the beleaguered taxpayer, and 2) Much more attention to the task at hand other than the woke agenda and other frills that keep sidetracking our public schools via this self-serving layer that has for too long betrayed our trust.Article content
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