Ford faces court battle over ending basic income pilot project, Jan. 30

The Ford government has no intention of getting rid of full-day kindergarten. The backlash would ruin them. What they are doing is preparing us to accept more pupils per classroom and kindergartens run by one early childhood educator or teacher alone.

As multiple studies and metanalyses show, this would be disastrous to these children’s education and for Ontario’s economy, as we struggle to provide a workforce on par with the rest of the world. Ontario already has one of the highest pupil-teacher ratios in all of Canada.

Nothing is sacred to Premier Doug Ford in his effort to advantage his business buddies — not children, not the elderly, not the poor, nor the environment. Who is next?

Gail Rutherford, Toronto

Michael Benedict, Toronto

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