CAS officials applaud move but 17 societies say they’re still struggling with deficits that total $11 million.
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Now they are walking back cuts to Children's Aid Societies.
I find this well and truly bizarre.
If the government, right or wrong, believed that the cuts were necessary and prudent, they ought to have followed through; If they changed their mind quickly due to new facts being brought to their attention, they should have reversed the cuts within days or weeks of making them, not 1/2 way into the fiscal year!
At this point, programs have been cut, layoffs have been made, (in assorted programs) from social services to children's services to health to education, staff and end users have been hurt. For what?
As a tangential note, my niece is currently in High School and has had to deal with classes of up to 42 in science, where there aren't enough lab stations for each student.........
With the reversal in cuts, notes have gone out to parents saying the schedules of courses already underway may be altered in-year, on short-notice as teachers are now being recalled.
How the hell they intend to pull that off is beyond me, but what a waste.
**** anyone for a new schedule followed by a teacher's strike?****
