Schools are used for not just the education of school aged children. They're used for adult learning. They're used for community meetings. They're used for health and fitness for community groups.

Often times the closure of schools involves marginal savings to the school boards themselves and they represent a huge loss to the community.

The purpose of school should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now.

He'll mention the fact that the federal government didn't talk about post-secondary education in the throne speech.

This could sap thousands of dollars from schools that are already financially strapped to provide education to children. Obviously, we wouldn't want that to happen. We want to protect our partners so we are moving them to other, private organizations.

It's not the education; it's the social issues in the schools. The children are troubled there. The parents are troubled. There's no cure in sight.