"Demographic Shifts" [Reflections On Book The Canadian Economy Series B-1 - Education]
Its demographics, can’t you see?
“What education means to me
Is chance to move along in life;
Raise children, educate, with wife”The demographic change ’round here
In rural scene, is made quite clear
By rural church where I once preached –
No longer used – museum piece –And all around the fields are bare –
No people live in district there;
Kids bus to school; school-board’s widespread;
Communities too small, are dead.Class size, and special needs, with skills
Developed, centrally soon fills
The office with supportive staff,
And unions, specialties, and craft.Post-secondary is a boost;
Redistribution is the root
Of resource – benefits abound
In far-flung Canada, we’ve found.A shift took place in sixty-six,
A decade after Sputnik’s fix
To attitudes of bygone days –
Worked for a while – now income says –Return on inputs are not here;
Our tax-rates have become quite dear,
So maybe we must shift the way
We educate – so outputs pay.Thanks Lord for this.
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