Juno News - Canadian test scores continue to get WORSE

00:00:00.000 As spending on public education in Canada has gone up, performance in our public schools has

00:00:05.120 actually gone down. So PISA, which stands for Program for International Student Assessment,

00:00:11.700 is a international test coordinated every few years by the OECD, and it's basically the gold

00:00:17.840 standard for international educational performance. So this test means business. Now, right off the

00:00:22.820 bat, it's important to acknowledge typically Canadian students have performed pretty well on

00:00:27.480 PISA. So they have ranked quite highly in comparison to other OECD countries. And oftentimes leftists

00:00:34.300 will use this to say, look, we need to defend the status quo. We need to continue to spend more and

00:00:39.740 more and more, dump more money into the same system because look, we rank highly internationally.

00:00:45.720 But a clear and obvious rebuttal to this is that Canada has been slipping ever since they started

00:00:51.780 benchmarking our scores in reading science and math. Canadian student scores have been on the

00:00:57.220 decline. Consider this. Canadian scores in all three subjects of reading, math, and science have

00:01:03.000 declined from the respective benchmarking year to 2018. Reading has declined from 534 points to 520,

00:01:11.120 mathematics from 532 points to 512, and science from 534 points to 518. So right away, that should

00:01:21.680 disprove the leftist claim that increasing education funding improves student outcomes. Because as we've

00:01:27.460 seen, over this same period, education funding has increased, but our PISA scores have declined.

00:01:34.160 Vincent Geloso, an economics professor and senior economist at the Montreal Economic Institute,

00:01:39.380 points out in a recent article, Quebec data show that performance on PISA tests for mathematics

00:01:44.460 has been quite stable, declining only 1.5% since 2006, even though spending per pupil has increased

00:01:51.980 18%. So Canada's been spending more and getting worse results. Why? Here's the problem with Canada's

00:01:58.360 education system. Results have been going down despite increases in funding because Canada's

00:02:03.220 public education system is a government-backed monopoly. Canadians know that monopolies create

00:02:08.380 less choice, poorer service, and higher prices. So why do we tolerate the government's monopoly over

00:02:13.460 public education? In Ontario and Atlantic provinces, if you want your tax dollars to follow your son or

00:02:19.760 daughter wherever they're going to school, you have to send them to a government school. You have

00:02:24.080 no choice. However, in other provinces, 35 to 80% of per pupil funding can follow students outside the

00:02:31.260 government system. And this leads us to the solution. Canada's public education system needs

00:02:36.500 more competition and more school choice for parents.

00:02:43.460 Canada's public education system needs more competition in childhood water, such as the

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Juno News - September 02, 2022