Dear Editor
Leadership in our K-12 educational system “should” start from above, from the locally elected trustees and school division senior administrators. But often it does not.
With all the cuts to education funding coming from our provincial governments, this certainly promises to be a time when strong leadership in education is needed at the local level.
Many are rightly confident that although times are tough, the quality of education delivered to children in our schools will not be reduced, given the resourcefulness, dedication and professionalism of teachers. The strongest leadership in our K-12 school system has always come from actual teachers in schools and classrooms. That’s why we call them “professionals.”
On the other hand, we can only hope that our elected trustees and their $200,000 plus per year board office administrators will be as dedicated and professional. We can hope that they will have the fundamental ethics and courage to operate at a high level by making sure that any cut backs will be born by the economically powerful and politically influential, perhaps even themselves, and not born by the marginalized and disadvantaged who have a greater stake in getting a good education.
Robert Hall
Saskatoon
