{"id":21924,"date":"2018-10-17T16:28:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T20:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=21924"},"modified":"2018-10-17T16:28:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T20:28:36","slug":"aurora-votes-2018-catholic-trustee-candidate-de-roos-wants-to-represent-whole-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/aurora-votes-2018-catholic-trustee-candidate-de-roos-wants-to-represent-whole-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora Votes 2018: Catholic trustee candidate de Roos wants to represent whole community"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n

Paul de Roos wants to bring increased \u201ctransparency\u201d to the York Catholic District School Board (YCDSB).
\nMr. de Roos, a dad of a little boy less than a year old and an Aurora resident for over 20 years, is one of three candidates vying to be the next YCDSB Trustee representing Aurora, King and Whitchurch-Stouffville and, if elected, he promises to represent the whole community at the table, not just parents.
\n\u201cThe School Board Trustee has to be a representative not of the school board to parents, the trustee needs to be representative of the community at the school board table,\u201d he says. \u201cWe need to be an oversight on the operations of the school board, working in the best interests of the entire community, parents included. The school flow of the school board should be, in my view, concern flow from the community and the trustee brings those concerns to the board.\u201d
\nMr. de Roos, a graduate of Cardinal Carter Secondary School, from which he went to York University to obtain his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, has been long-involved with the YCDSB.
\nIn putting his name forward, he not only wanted to focus on bringing First Aid Training back into schools, along with new programs to equip students with the personal finance savvy they will need in the future, but also to bring \u201ctransparency\u201d to the system.
\n\u201cI am very much for the idea of a transparent and open school board that has a very open decision-making process,\u201d he says. \u201cIn my view, the trend of governance is to become more transparent at all levels of government, whether it is Federal, Provincial, Municipal or School Board. We need to be more transparent to the taxpayers that we are making efficient decisions that are in their best interests.\u201d
\nWhile he says there were specific instances in mind where he felt the board had not been transparent, he declines to elaborate on what he views those issues to be.
\nLooking ahead to the next four years, Mr. de Roos says, if elected, he will also focus on strengthening the identity of the York Catholic District School Board. He is a firm opponent of any discussions on merging public and Catholic boards across the Province, a position which was been promoted most prominently by the Green Party of Ontario.
\n\u201cI definitely disagree with that strongly,\u201d he says. \u201cWe have a new government in Queen\u2019s Park, the PC Government, and we need to make them aware that Catholic school boards in Ontario, on average, are dollar for dollar more efficient than public school boards in delivering education, so it just doesn\u2019t make sense. Why would you want to merge something that is more efficient with something that is less efficient? It just doesn\u2019t make any sense.
\n\u201cUpfront costs for merging school boards is alarming; it can be as high as $11.2 to $2 billion in overall merging costs. At a time when the government is trying to trim the deficit, where are they going to find up to $2 billion to put together this merger of an efficient school board into an inefficient school system? At this time, it doesn\u2019t make any sense at all from a fiscal perspective.\u201d
\nNor does it make any sense to measure student success solely by whether or not they head to university.
\n\u201cOutcomes need to be measured in many different ways,\u201d he says. \u201cNow they are looking at achievement beyond post-secondary education: how many students go to university, how many students go to college, and so on. Even that doesn\u2019t necessarily have any indication on success rate because what\u2019s good for one student might not be the correct career path for another student.
\n\u201cThe concept of promoting trades in the school is running up against this entire concept that success is graduating from high school and going out into university. While that could be a great path to success for one student, that may not be best path to success for the next student.\u201d<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paul de Roos wants to bring increased \u201ctransparency\u201d to the York Catholic District School Board (YCDSB).
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