Dear Editor:
The recent "gift" of $40 to parents with young children is almost the exact amount of the per pupil funding each child is given in the budget for a day.
This $40 gift will cover the costs of one day's daycare or one hour of tutoring or some private music, dance and drama lessons.
Children are in school for six hours. What a bargain for the taxpayers when we multiply six times $40 per hour and we get $240 in instruction and childcare costs per pupil per day.
This same $40 per pupil also has to cover school and district daily operating costs.
The government costs of the ongoing dispute and the upcoming court case could be going directly to the schools to pay for the specialist teachers who provide support for children who need more individual help.
There needs to be a settlement.
Pat Kotush
North Vancouver
