Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have heard that. I have heard that the territorial Assembly and the Department of Education, Culture and Employment have been giving more money than ever before, and the way the money is spent is up to the school boards. However, we are funding with a formula that is not working.
It is really irrelevant to me who is responsible for how that money is spent. What is relevant to us, and we have to all be responsible, including the Minister, deputy minister, all of the staff of the government department and everyone in the local boards, what is important is what is going on in the classroom.
I could go and say it is up to the school board but the bottom line is it is the kids. There are just too many kids in the classrooms. Obviously, this PTR ratio is not working.
Regardless of what they are doing in the rest of the country, regardless of what this PTR was meant to be and how it always has been, can we not revisit this and say okay, we need cultural specialists, we need aboriginal language specialists, we certainly need teaching assistants. We need a lot more than we have now and their position is being funded by teachers' money, so why can we not fund these separately?