More details on the EMSB report
A commenter asked below whether the report on the EMSB is public. I doubt it, but am not certain. Meanwhile, the CBC has a piece offering more details than we’ve seen hitherto.
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Jack 14:05 on 2019-11-07 Permalink
“The excellent results achieved by EMSB students in the ministerial exams reflect the quality of the work done by frontline workers in contact with elementary and high school students,” the report concludes.
For the vast majority of teachers who worked for the students and their folks first. The Board was looked upon as an institution often working against our direct interests. The corruption and dysfunction was real and tangible. Our own Union ( MTA ) was also complicit, they were closer to the Board apparatchiks than they were to their members. ” What no quorum again !”
The ” political ” leadership assumed that we were all beholden to them.
The senior leadership often saw this political structure as a trampoline to the Holy Grail, a safe Liberal Provincial or Federal seat, Jennifer Maccarone a perfect example. Our own Angela Mancini ran for City Councillor with Coderre twice and was crushed ( Just because you get your family to vote for you only works at the school commissioner level ! ).
The upper board echelon and councillors were often folks who had simply given up on teaching and were often related.
The best department the board put together were the custodians, who were and are often the most popular members of any staff.
When people started hearing that the boards might be replaced did anyone feel a groundswell of support from our community, no, because we know.
walkerp 15:14 on 2019-11-07 Permalink
Every time I listen to an interview with Angela Mancini, she says absolutely nothing. It’s amazing how she is able to say so many words and not reveal a single morsel of relevant information or give a single answer.
Ephraim 15:30 on 2019-11-07 Permalink
The EMSB is the merger of 4 boards. Protestant and 3 Catholic boards, the other two not mentioned are St-Croix and Jérôme-Le Royer. The most problematic was actually Jérôme-Le Royer, if I remember correctly, which became more dominant. The Protestant was generally run okay and the English Catholic was extremely well run.
Jack 16:21 on 2019-11-07 Permalink
@ walkerp you should have sat down and tried to talk to her about curriculum…crickets.
Kevin 17:22 on 2019-11-07 Permalink
Links to the Treasury Board report and the Ministry’s report are here
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-places-emsb-in-trusteeship-names-former-mp-marlene-jennings-as-administrator-1.4672308
Kate 21:25 on 2019-11-07 Permalink
Thank you, Kevin.
JoeNotCharles 19:48 on 2019-11-07 Permalink
“For example, in May 2017, the EMSB’s director general spent $305 in public funds to take 20 staff members out to lunch.
There is no indication that these meetings could not have been held at the EMSB headquarters, the report says.”
That’s $15.25 a person. That’s not bad value at all.
Taking your team out to lunch once in a while is a good way to boost morale and promote good relations. What a stupid criticism.
Tim S. 22:05 on 2019-11-07 Permalink
Yeah, thanks Kevin. Some interesting reading in between all the redactions.