The recommendations to make the New Brunswick education system better missed the mark according to provincial NDP leader Dominic Cardy.
He doubts whether they can turn around a bad situation in a knowledge economy.
“In the province with 56-percent literacy rate about one in five Anglophone kids who aren’t meeting the grade two standard and two in five in the Francophone system, just not acceptable when we’re paying so much for a system that should be giving us a world class education.”
Cardy says social promotion within the school system should be done away with. Both he and former Lieutenent-Governer Margaret McCain say the provincial government should be looking at the Finnish model.
