The GN’s myopic stupidity

Parents, be aware!

The GN’s Department of Education may not be on your side in trying to keep your teens in high school.

Nunavut’s dropout rate must not register as a priority in the halls of administration.

I discovered this on the weekend when my just-turned 16-year-old babysitter announced that she had quit school to take a full-time job with – get this – the Department of Education!

Apparently the local private sector aren’t the only ones who lose people to the GN’s wage-benefit package.

Is it policy to recruit “talent” from the Grade 10 class at the local high school? If this does not qualify as hypocrisy, it certainly does as myopic stupidity.

Peter McDonald
Iqaluit