Privatize education, save billions

Unlicensed child care to remain important (Letters, Dec. 2)

Education Minister Liz Sandals confirmed, when writing about licensed child care, what most of the public already knew but were afraid to say: the full-day kindergarten in which 265,000 children are now enrolled amounts to $1 billion in taxpayer-funded babysitting. If the government and taxpayers were serious about saving billions of wasted dollars on education, here’s what to do: Eliminate all public and separate school boards. Privatize education. Have the funds follow the student. Parents should be able to send their child to a school of their choice.

The province would create, maintain and enforce the curriculum and standards using inspectors and provincial testing.

Individual schools would be responsible for hiring, salaries, benefits and termination of teachers. Freemarket competition makes for better schools, teachers and better-educated children. Why is the quality of education going downhill? Why are the old standards and methods no good anymore? A return to the three Rs is required. Why is Kathleen Wynne wasting money, time and energy implementing a controversial and unnecessarily explicit sex education bill developed in part by her former deputy minister, Benjamin Levin, who is charged with several counts of child pornography? Why is the public not concerned about this?

PHIL ROMAKER, ANCASTER