藤兒點評：VSB的學校董事局不懂得的就是，學校不是萬能！
Bill Gates做了Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft和天量的慈善服務，是哪所學校教出來的。世上還有很多類似的例子。
哈佛大學授予Bill Gates名譽學位（拉丁語：honoris causa），也是想拿Bill Gates對社會作出的突出貢獻，往哈佛大學的臉上貼金。
其實，在學校的撥款不足時，就可以相應地減少上課時間，不在學校上課的時間，讓孩子們在家自學成才。學學Bill Gates等等成功人士，考察考察學生們的自學成才的能力。
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來源：http://www.cupe.bc.ca/news/1226
Provincial underfunding to blame for VSB budget woes VANCOUVER—Education minister Margaret MacDiarmid was not on hand to hear the community struggle with an $18 million funding shortfall in the Vancouver school district. “It is truly shameful that this minister refuses to come face-to-face with the trustees, parents, staff and students who are being hurt by underfunding,” said CUPE 15 president Paul Faoro. Trustees on the Vancouver Board of Education had invited the minister to attend. Faoro said that given that her constituency office is three blocks from where the VSB meeting was held, Minister MacDiarmid should have been there. On March 15, BC school districts received notice of their preliminary budget allocations for the coming school year, and got a clear signal that the financial picture is not good. In stark contrast to the BC government’s spin of the ‘highest funding ever’ – districts throughout the province instead will see continued chronic underfunding. “Provincial underfunding over the past eight years has brought most districts to the point of massive structural funding shortfalls. Vancouver is the most recent example of what we know is going to be a tsunami of program and service cuts in BC’s 60 districts,” said Barry O’Neill, president of CUPE BC. CUPE research indicates that the magnitude of the mounting structural funding shortfall will surpass $300 million this year, and will increasingly curtail options available to boards attempting to bring their budgets into balance. Trustees on the Vancouver Board of Education are reviewing options that include reducing instructional days from 185 to 175 next year and adding extra minutes to each day; cutting teachers and support staff positions, and administrative time for vice-principals; and delaying necessary facility improvements. Faoro and O’Neill said that it is time for the Campbell government to face the music, admit that it needs to provide higher levels of funding to districts and address the faulty funding formula. CUPE has released a background analysis of the BC education funding situation, and will be releasing further research on the magnitude of BC government underfunding in the days to come.
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來源：http://www.cupe.bc.ca/sites/default/files/CUPE-BN-March26-final.pdf
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