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Teacher unions claim it’s not about the money.

It’s about the kids. About no cuts to classrooms. About quality education.

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Make no mistake, though. It’s all about the money.

The math is simple: The more you pay teachers, the more classes grow — unless you’re prepared to keep doubling the province’s education budget every decade.

That’s what happened in the years the Liberals were in power. Meanwhile, enrolment has dropped. Yet the unions still fought the government at every turn. Still balked at any attempt to hold them accountable.

As for quality education, the unions are blocking all the mechanisms that are supposed to provide parents with ways to measure how well their children are doing.

Earlier this month, Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation (OSSTF) told their members not to implement EQAO testing. That’s outrageous.

Unions have balked at standardized testing ever since it was introduced. They say they’re forced to “teach to the test.” But the test is based on the curriculum — so if you’re teaching to the test, you’re teaching what students are supposed to learn.