Spending Up and Math Scores Down

While the Liberals were recently touting their success in raising literacy rates among our school age children, they were just as aggressively down-playing the three-year drop in numeracy rates.

The conspiracy theorists here at the NB Conservative are wondering if maybe lower numeracy scores aren't one of the objectives of the provincial Liberal party. After all, why would Liberals want New Brunswickers to be good with numbers? If more people understood the size of the provincial deficit this year they would be a lot more pissed off about it.

In December, the Graham Grits are going to produce a follow-up budget to the last deficit balloon they released only 7 months ago. All accounts are that it is going to be full of rosy predictions and very light on difficult choices.

Of course the fewer the number of people who understand just how bad their number are the better for them. So don't count on any extra budget money going towards math education.