Letter: The Province Calls It “Efficiency.” Rural Ontario Should Call It What It Is

A Mildmay resident warns that Ontario’s plan to eliminate elected school trustees in favour of centralized oversight risks silencing rural voices and weakening local democracy in education.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Dear Editor,

While most rural weeklies haven’t reported on it yet, Ontario has just taken a major step toward eliminating locally elected school trustees and replacing them with a single, centralized “Student and Family Support Office” in every school board. The province says this is all about “efficie…