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students: The provincial outcomes for our Grade 3, 6, 9 and 12 students have been blown away by the high-tech world many will be working in. With education slipping badly, our P-12 outcomes now rank closer to the bottom than the top in Canada, resulting in dropouts and higher level science, technology, engineering and math grads who have left the province during the last 20 years. They aren t being replaced by newborns or immigrants. Why?, according to The Chronicle Herald. Collectively, teachers have not met their basic teaching obligations. Recent generations of students have been hobbled by too many long-outmoded teachers with overgenerous contracts. But this won t change until our young parents develop the sense of urgency required to ensure their children get a fresh start in a revitalized P-12 education system and (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.