WANTED: Legal Beagle Re: $40 donation to BCTF
On July 31, 2014, BC Finance Minister, Mike de Jong announced the $40 day initiative to pay parents: "Parents can utilize that money to acquire tutoring for their children, they can use the money to explore other educational opportunities as they see fit and for some parents, it'll be basic daycare."
Government knows that taxpayer money collected for education is earmarked FOR education. Since parents are ultimately responsible for the healthy development and education of their children it seems very appropriate to direct some of those assigned funds to parents whose chosen schools are unavailable due to a teacher strike.
A number of other good governance principles are also met by this bold move: Devolution, Diversity, Innovation, etc. Please see my blog post — Education Debit Account Idea —http://www.parentsteachingparents.net/2014/08/education-debit-account-idea-explained/.
Now, if that $40 payout is to be used to help fund the “BC Teachers Federation”, as the PayPal directions specify, isn’t this a gross misdirection of taxpayer money?
Can some lawyer please advise?
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