‘Front and Center’: Vision Vancouver School Board Chair Patti Bacchus–The Continual Slide
Rather than to accept any of the incredible drivel coming from Patti Bacchus as truth or try to understand the seeming heavy-handedness of the Minister of Education, I sat down and read the entire Auditor’s Report again and then went back as far as the NDP govt’s similar treatment of previous School Boards.
This is a very serious matter that I fear has not been properly vetted in the media (or by the media) due to the political spin flying one way and the other.
The Minister claims that the Vancouver School Board hasn’t created a strong fiscal management model and this is likely the root of the problem between the Board and the provincial govt. Patti Bacchus, on the other hand, claims the govt are on a witch hunt.
Other than that possible accurate description, Ms. Bacchus doesn’t want to understand the issue, for if she does, she’ll have to explain away protecting her NDP pals and insiders, at the expense of children’s educational needs in the public system.
The results of my findings are very interesting, to say the least, in that they not so much put into perspective the words of the Minister as they reveal, with alarming clarity, the rhetorical nonsense of the Chair of the Vancouver School Board, who is clearly out of her depth and should really stop using children who attend public school in Vancouver as pawns in her political efforts to seek an NDP nomination in the next provincial election.
Don’t believe she is in thick with the NDP and their collective line about how the provincial government don’t care about education even though the BC Liberals haven’t changed one iota from how the previous NDP govt handled education in this province?
“I have never been more concerned about the Minister’s political agenda”, sais Ms. Bacchus recently. “We (the VBE/VSB) don’t have any political agenda…at least I don’t”, she exclaimed.
Really Patricia?
Oh dear…
Problem being: she said that to a CKNW reporter after a recent NDP endorsed POLITICAL rally, at which Ms. Bacchus herself was keynote siren.
No?
Have a look my darlings…let me help you once again…
The above is a picture from the rally. She described it as “a huge success” with “a massive turnout.”
A-huh…sure thing…
Um, yeah, sure looks packed doesn’t it? In point of fact, it was a massive flop, with only prominent members of the NDP and Vision present–and, of course, a whole slew of their hangers on and drivel jockeys. Here is the Princess of Propaganda herself addressing the “massive crowd”… of 127 people on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Nope, no political rally here Patti, not at all. Just the Canadian Federation of Students (and their NDP members) out for a a little sun.
Not a chance there’s a political animus here, Patti. No way. Oh, look who’s here…Paul Faoro, local union fluffer and die-hard Vision/NDP bobblehead.
Ah…no way, not a snowball’s chance in hell, not a hope that Patti Bacchus could possibly be pumping for a future NDP nomination. Nah…hang on, do my eyes deceive me or…why that wouldn’t happen to be NDP MLA Shane Simpson at the same rally now would it, Patti? Vision School Board Trustee Mike Lombardi is the lucky fellow sandwiched by Ms. Bscchus and Mr. Simpson. Lombardi, who is a long time NDPer, was also a speaker at the ‘massive’ rally and is notorious for his anti-private school rants..
Okay, enough pummeling poor Patti and her pals over their BS. Her lies are just embarrassing.
So, here below, is last week’s ‘Front and Center’ which I was going to post Saturday, but instead spent almost all weekend following up on three more major Gregor Robertson stories you’ll see here today and tomorrow.
I cut through the fog for you so you can see the real problem with education funding in B.C. and why Patti Bacchus is too busy playing politics with your children’s education to care.
Enjoy.
Desperately needed and perfectly done Alex. The audacity of this woman and her cohorts in the union and the N.D.P. party is phenomenal.
And with the push by the Liberal Party for All Day Kindergarten, will only mean the necessity of hiring more highly paid public service employees, probably many of them belonging to the BCTF. They stand to win either way, unless we get another name up for Premier in this province. This really needed doing, and you came across in aces, again. Thanks so much from everyone here, I’m sure.
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Many thx for your kind words. I just think Patti needs to grow up and stop lying to the public.
You’re most welcome.
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Alex, you sure are building a great brand man. These front and centre videos are getting better and better. The post you did here on Patti Bacchus is the best. Well done. BTW I’m a teacher and agree with you totally. They don’t like us younger ones but who is going to replace them eventually?
Thanks again Alex. Nice shirt too!
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Too kind. Much appreciation for your exceedingly generous words.
My shirt thx you too!
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P.S. And when Alex’s shirts talk, they talk loud!
On the matter of unions in general: This in the July 16 edition of the Wall Street Journal. “To protest hiring nonunion help, union hires nonunion pickets”.
Apparently the Mid-Atlantic Regional Council of Carpenters can’t get their members out to picket, and are paying unemployed and retired help the minimum wage rate for Washington D.C. of $8.25. There is a plethora of persons looking for jobs as the Obama paradise has a national unemployment rate of 9.5%. Scarier yet is the fact that many are already falling off the unemployment rolls and there is a threat of thousands of homeless men and women wandering the streets of America.
There is a very old rhyme that goes back hundreds of years:
Hark, hark, the dogs do bark, the beggars are coming to town.
Sounds ominous doesn’t it?
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Well put.
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Why oh why can’t we make socialism work here? The state schools are a mess, the state health care system is a mess …
Surely history shows us that socialism has always been a rousing success anywhere and every time. Maybe we just need higher taxes and more government control of everything. Yeah, that’s it. / sarc
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I know, it’s amazing isn’t it? LOL!
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Hi Alex, Like my favourite US news commentator, you believe the best comments are substantiated with the photos/videos and words of those whose false rhetoric needs public exposure, unfortunately many are foolish enough to excuse and even deny the evidence.
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Comparing me to Glenn Beck is a compliment I don’t deserve. He is superb. Thank you very much.
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” …unfortunately many are foolish enough to excuse and even deny the evidence.”
To be of the left one must excuse or deny the evidence. Simply because its all against them. Hillary Clinton was babbling in Kiev, Ukraine the other day about how “wealth is better spread around”. As Fred Thompson put it so well: “No – doesn’t work. That’s why you didn’t speak in Kiev, USSR.”
http://www.ihatethemedia.com/fred-thompson-top-10-funniest-tweets
Consider the lack of interest in all the juicy stuff from the former USSR that’s become freely available since the Wall came down, and how little interest there is in the legacy media and leftist academe. For example:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/KGBExoneratesMcCarthyism.html
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I LOVE Fred Thompson! Great comment!
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Paul Faoro is as useful as (and reminiscent of) the mysterious left over sock in the dryer. He is ubiquitous at all fluff ralleys, when he isn’t ringing his hands worrying about third world issues, or how to dole out union money to help free the communists.
As an aside, the tacky grey CUPE t-shirt with the Fred Asher (remember him?) sports jacket is funny stuff, very professional Mr. President!
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You said it! I actually liked the guy when I first met him, only to realize what an extremist ideologue he really is. As long as you’re going his way, that’s okay. Veer a little to the right (pun intended) and it’s over.
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Cut right to the heart of the issue that most of us suspected and expected was the case. I for one am sick of hearing that it is about the “students”. Students of Marxism perhaps? First rate, again.
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Thx comrade.
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Alex,
Like you and so many others I am Fed Up with individuals like Patti pimping our children for their own political and personnel agendas.
Has the teacher’s union out lived its usefulness? Is it hurting or helping improve our education system? Where is the innovation? I have no problem paying top dollar for the best but not paying top dollar just for seniority. How many teachers are working two jobs (after school schools & tutoring) and collecting two pay checks because they or others are failing to deliver during the normal school day?
There have been huge advances in technology but where is it helping improve our education system? Why are we not delivering personalized educational services based on how each student learns? Why are we not using the best of the best to deliver education to more students via TV, the internet etc. Why are we not approaching companies like Electric Arts to develop game based education? (Ever watch the kids go from level 1 to 10 in a few hours) How about using the health care model of watch one, do one, teach one, to get the kids to help other kids learn? (Again just watch the kids teach each other how to advance levels.) or Have you ever had to teach someone else and thereby become even more proficient about the subject?
If we don’t improve the way we teach and help our kids succeed we will have both failed them and be left behind as a country. Time for a change and the union and the politicians either need to get onboard or step aside.
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That’s exactly what she is doing and it’s absolutely shameful.
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