To the editor:
I am writing to you to put to you some of my observations.
With the strike going on at Confederation College (and all on Ontario’s colleges), I have observed how the college’s people in control, not the teachers or the students, have lost their focus on what education and what a college should be. I saw the advertisement on TV about what the college is and from what I hear and see from the teachers and students – it is not that.
We should hear from the students and teachers. This is the best college, this place of higher learning, to allow us the education we need to start out life, I am so glad I could come here.
This is not the case from what I hear from what the teachers and students say. It used to be. My oldest son, Bradley left university down east. He was not happy with the program he chose and come home to Confederation College to start in the X-ray program and then on to the ultrasound program. He loved his profession and he excelled at it. After he and his wife were killed in a car accident, I got letters from so many people where he found something in them that allowed them to start treatment. This all started at Confederation College. We gave a bursary in his name for many years at the College.
Why I tell you all of this is because I feel we need teachers that feel respected and treated in all areas as they should be: time, offices, money enough to live on and not need second jobs. If not, we have what we have now, where students are not given what they need. We don’t need impressive buildings. The money the government sends should be spent to create good, caring education.
I leave you with this quote from St. Paul to the Philippians:
“Finally brothers and sisters whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, if anything is excellent or praise worthy, think about such things”
Alice Ward,
Thunder Bay
