As it's described in the article, neither side is presenting a compelling case. The government isn't saying what problem it's trying to solve, the teacher's union isn't saying why it's bad (1).<p>I went through the Ontario school system, and I hated it. Unless it has changed drastically, high school seemed particularly ineffective, being both too broad and aimed at post-secondary university-level education. Of note was the lack of education for skilled workers, which, predictably, there's a shortage of now. I went through the 5 year program, which was particularly awful (decades ago they aligned it with (all?) other provinces and made it 4 years).<p>Personalized education through technology, at least as a supplement to on-site education, is already here. Ensuring that all children have access to it, by making it government funded, seems like an awful thing to be up and arms about.<p>(1) They do claim that this will be a problem because of the digital divide, but the gap between poor and rich students (putting it simply) is well known, and growing, so how exactly would this make it worse?