JBJ14

Hi again ... back on elementary schools sorry

Seen a couple of phrases I'm not sure on.

What is school casino funding exactly? Makes it sound like a gambling problem gone right!

Also what's the difference between traditional learning and whatever they call what the other schools do.

Thanks for any help, I'll be on the canniversary section before I know it

Siouxie

Casino funding, I believe, is a grant from the Gaming Commission.

http://www.gaming.gov.bc.ca/grants/

As to your other question, you could try looking here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle4192836/

Piff Poff

The gaming commission allows clubs to send adult volunteers to their local casino, to help run it, that club then earns money, this money then has rules on how and where it can be spent. The last one my daughters Air Cadet Sqn earnt over $20k for a couple of nights work. Because of the demands of clubs wanting casino's in Alberta, your organisation can only do one I think it's every three years.

iaink

Ones traditional, and the other, er, less so?

Sorry, I guess I dont fully understand what you are asking about...

Does anything in the wiki help?
http://britishexpats.com/wiki/Category:Education-Canada

Flossie and Jim

You might have found this link already: http://www.cbe.ab.ca/programs/choices/prog-tlc.asp

I'm still really none the wiser though. As far as I can tell its more like how we used to learn as kids where the desks all face the front, kids are taught things all together, homework, etc. I don't yet have experience of the "regular" programming to compare with, but I guess the desks are arranged different and kids might get more of a chance to do this enquiry based learning which seems to be the buzz word. Others with more experience might be along soon!

gryphea

Casino funding is uniquely albertan I think

The casino profits (I beleive 50% of the tables, 10% of the slots) are split between charitable, sporting and schooling causes. In return those individual causes have to 'work a casino' , effectively staff certain roles for a 48 hr period (ie cashiers, chip runners, counting staff, bankers etc). Only causes who work a casino get to share the profits and they are delved out quarterly, ie if your cause gets mid -week slot they actually get a share of the profits from the enitre slots averaged over the quarter.

Casino rotations in calgary come up about every 18 months (only for those whose causes 'get casinos') and a lot of kids sports clubs and some schools will have slots. Slots are worth about 65-75K and provide money for specific ends (rules are set out for this). A school doing casinos will generally have more money to spend on extra stuff, programming and equipment and the amount is per school, so the smaller the school the bigger the per pupil amount.

Doing casinos may not suit everyone ethically.

Traditional learning is, I think, more like old-fashioned more akin to the education I got. It seems fairly popular, but isn't my thing so I don't know a whole lot about it.

Siouxie

BC have Casino Grants, as I posted earlier. Nothing to do with working in one, it's a grant given by the Gaming Commission. There is one for Schools (Parent Advisory Councils) which is capped at $20 per pupil and District PAC's which is capped at $2,500 per year.

http://www.gaming.gov.bc.ca/grants/pacdpac.htm
http://www.gaming.gov.bc.ca/grants/pacdpac.htm

gryphea

Yup

What I should have said is the method used to dsictribute the profits from Casinos is uniquely albertan, ie no other province requires volunteers to work to gain from the funding.

Siouxie

Ah! Got it

Beaverquest

yeah we have some parents like that at our kids school

have no issues reaping the benefits though

gets a bit irritating when both myself & wife did shifts (2am finish schoolnight...)

mandymoochops

"Alberta schools - you're doing it right"

Almost Canadian

Exactly. Those that find it unethical can always don a t-shirt and run up a mountain or shave their head to raise money

mandymoochops

I'm not one to justify profiting from illegal means or anything like that, but it just seems a really sensible business decision to tap into a huge source of funds.

Though I'm sure there are people that believe gaining funding from this kind of thing enables gambling addiction.

Thoug on the flip side of the coin if every type of activity that people disagreed with (smoking / drinking / drilling oil wells) were exempt from putting money back into the public coffers (by way of taxes etc) there wouldn't be a heck of a lot left to spend

Edited to add I think I saw something on the tv last week regarding 50/50 sales at hockey matches, and because of the way that certain provinces regulate their ticket sales, some clubs only get something like $10k a game from it, while the others (Alberta clubs for one) can make $30k (we are talking NHL clubs though I suspect the rules / disadvantages filter down to the smaller clubs too).

Why do some provinces have to hide behind stupid rules when the benefit would far outweigh the ink it would take to sign away a regulation.