[gspencley]

I have no love for social media companies, but as a citizen of Ontario this is also not what I want my tax dollars going towards. The public school system here needs to focus a bit more on improving the quality of our education system, and a bit less on attacking the private sector. Children's relationships with social media is the domain of the parents in my opinion.

[zinodaur]

The article mentions that the lawyers only get payed if they win the case, your tax dollars are safe

[gspencley]

My comment is regarding what educators, board directors and the public sector are focusing their time and energy on. This is not what we're paying them for, in my opinion (at least it's not what I want them focusing on - I'm not sure why I'm getting down-voted for expressing this personal opinion). My comment has absolutely nothing what-so-ever to do with compensation for their legal representation.

[Ensorceled]

> I'm not sure why I'm getting down-voted for expressing this personal opinion

Multiple school boards are so concerned about this issue and they are taking this extraordinary step and your opinion is just that "they shouldn't be" and "I don't want my tax dollars going to this". You getting down voted because you don't have a reason to be against this other than "my money".

[gspencley]

> you don't have a reason to be against this other than "my money".

It's about roles, responsibilities and scope as well as the allocation of public funds, which is something that concerns everyone and is a non-partisan issue. We created a public education system in order to educate our children, presumably in order to prepare them for adult life. I'm being intentionally broad about that, as some people would even limit that to "prepare for employment", but I know there are a wide variety of views and opinions on that subject.

Filing lawsuits that target the private sector which are providing services that have little to nothing to do with education and pertain primarily to the private lives of students and families is very outside of that scope (in my opinion). I thought that this was quite implicit in "this isn't what we want our tax dollars funding" but apparently people get lazer-focused on personal wealth?

[Ensorceled]

Sure, I agree that the school boards should be publicly calling out the province to solve this problem. But you were/are getting down voted because it sounded like a "my precious tax dollars" rant.

[drunkan]

You explicitly said tax dollars going towards and bought up public and private sector in a thinly veiled politically charged nonsense comment. Now your playing innocent. In my opinion of course.

The whole point of this lawsuit is that their jobs are being made harder with no additional resources.

Would you prefer the additional resources required to deal with the issues outlined in the lawsuit come from “your tax dollars” or from those causing the costs?

It’s a classic socialize the costs privatize the profits situation where negative costs caused by private sector are paid for by the taxpayer.

Ironically your viewpoint if it were to stand will inevitably cost you more “tax dollars” when we have to pay the increased costs of dealing with these issues in schools rather than those responsible paying.

[julianlam]

At least this is done under the guise of improving mental health for children (or at the very least aiming towards easing the financial burden of dealing with the aftermath of such).

There's a lot more to be pissed off about, like the OTPP pissing away $95MM on FTX.