We don't really have the problems you mentioned in Alberta and we have maintained our standing relative to everybody else in that academic world wide test or sl

We don't really have the problems you mentioned in Alberta and we have maintained our standing relative to everybody else in that academic world wide test or slightly improved (pisa??? I forget the name), however our performance over time is terrible. The percentage of people not sufficient in math has slipped from the low teens to low 20% comparing now to 20 years ago, if I recall the numbers correctly. Not to say it's phones, but something is certainly going on over time that is making at least a subset of the kids dumber. You see places like Thales academy growing and killing it on a budget far smaller than our per student budget and you really have to wonder as well, because it implies the budget isn't the real issue either. I sometimes wonder if the big thing is parents at home who are pushing in the right direction followed by teachers that just teach and don't taint things with political BS, as my best teachers were the ones I couldn't tell you who they were going to vote for (suspect left to far left candidates but I couldn't be sure because they presented issues mostly neutrally).