TDSB...up to 60 schools could close due to budget shortfall

[ganjavih]

Re: TDSB...up to 60 schools could close due to budget shortf

The average 905 family pulls in 80,000-100,000 a year if not more. That is more then enough to afford a home in central Toronto neighbourhoods.

Yeah, but it's a tough sell. It's hard to convince someone to pay the same amount to get a smaller lot, no garage and a house that is smaller, older, probably in need of some repair and more expensive to maintain. Plus, the inner city houses are less "showy" and a little more gritty (ie. rundown)... important when the inlaws come into town.

 

[miketoronto]

Re: TDSB...up to 60 schools could close due to budget shortf

Well many of my sisters friends have amazing inner city homes. Took a little work to get them fixed up. But they are amazing now.

Also there are tons of homes in the old boroughs like Scar and NY for good prices.

Sure the street I live on in Scar has homes that are higher priced. But go about 5min from my house, and there are cute homes in the 280,000-300,000 range. Yes they are bungalows, etc. But cute homes.

There are tons of homes that are still within the price range of people. Just they are not 3,000 sq feet.

 

[scarberiankhatru]

Re: TDSB...up to 60 schools could close due to budget shortf

The school boards (edit: pretty much the same thing is going on within the Catholic board - they've already closed some suburban 416 schools) are only in this predicament because they severely overbuilt the system in the 70s and 80s so that instead of fewer, larger schools, we have a ridiculous number of small schools with like 200 kids in them. The schools were crammed full with kids of boomers, immigrants, and suburban flight'ers, but the demographics shifted and now the kids are gone and may not return for decades, if at all. Small schools are good in some ways, but when they're so small they don't get allotted a librarian, for instance, is it worth it? Small schools also results in split grade classes, which invaribly sucks for the higher grade in the class. Fewer, larger schools would mean not every kid would be within a 2 minute walk of school, but most would still be very close. It seems like there's already a shortage of teachers.

"The remark that people are pushed to the 905 because they can't afford central Toronto is almost utter crap. The average 905 family pulls in 80,000-100,000 a year if not more. That is more then enough to afford a home in central Toronto neighbourhoods."

A house, but almost certainly not an equivalently sized house. If you have multiple kids and want space, you pay through the nose to get it in central Toronto.

 

[fiendishlibrarian]

Re: TDSB...up to 60 schools could close due to budget shortf

What's the matter with children? After all, once they get into the teeny years, they're a godsend to middle-aged leches--especially on clothes-hostile days like today

I will concede that point...I just fear my stock will continue to fall as I approach middle-age lech-itude, making said Lolitas that much more unattainable (not that it's easy now)...of course, that *is* one reason why I'm in my particular line of work. I reckon since it's worked once already...

 

[ganjavih]

Re: TDSB...up to 60 schools could close due to budget shortf

How do you feel about old people? They're so slow and dim-witted... and they often smell funny.

 

[fiendishlibrarian]

Re: TDSB...up to 60 schools could close due to budget shortf

True, but by and large they're quiet and pick up after themselves. Harmless, relatively speaking.

 

[BuildTO]

Re: TDSB...up to 60 schools could close due to budget shortf

Here we go again with the anti-child stance. As if you were never one yourself, and as if the world could get by without children.

Children are just fine. It's cranky, short-sighted, intolerant adults who make the world a lousy place.

 

[miketoronto]

Re: TDSB...up to 60 schools could close due to budget shortf

You got that right BuildTO. Children are our future. One only needs to look at Italy, where people are not having kids, to see the problems that are being caused, by not having kids.

 

[nassauone]

Re: TDSB...up to 60 schools could close due to budget shortf

Sheeesh...now we have to look at Italy as well.



:rolleyes :rolleyes :rolleyes

 

[SD2]

Re: TDSB...up to 60 schools could close due to budget shortf

Have to start somewhere. My point is that the *fewer* the kids, the less acute the problem *over time* (i.e. fewer kids, fewer gangstas). It's all about the numbers.

And don't for a minute think it isn't kids throwing shit all over. In my area, there's a Coffee Slime and Tim's on Yonge, and those places are crammed with kids after three, then they make the trek from Yonge to their houses and you can see the discarded cups left along the street and sidewalk like breadcrumbs.

This is a very stereotypical view of kids. Not all of them are like this. You can find adults that are worse.

I ****ing *despise* children, loathe them and the way they turn people into self-absorbed, myopic domesticated little shits obsessed with junior and blah blah blah. Almost as bad as dog owners. So the less the better, and over time, we'll benefit from it.

You're comparing parenting kids to owning dogs?

I think there would be something seriously wrong with society if parents didn't become "obsessed with junior".

Raising kids is a huge responsibility. It takes up most of your time...but that just comes with the territory.

Everytime Dalton McGuinty says he's doing this or that for "Ontario's working familees", I want to wring his stringy neck.

What's wrong with that?


Personally, I think a city without kids would be extremely depressing.

 

[fiendishlibrarian]

Re: TDSB...up to 60 schools could close due to budget shortf

Just keep them the hell away from me.