I have never seen a school with so many Jays as I saw at Rawlinson school in Oakwood Village. And then, one day, they all went away.
When I went to pick up my kid after school, I saw at least three baseball games in action.
Every second kid was wearing a Toronto Blue Jays t-shirt.
I thought, wow, that Blue Jays summer camp is really working.
That’s why I didn’t understand when a fellow parent told me that the Blue Jays summer camp was cancelled at Rawlinson.
She tells me that her son loves the game. As we’re talking on the school field, he’s playing with his brother. A bat, a tennis ball, a baseball jersey – he’s completely lost in the game.
His mom says he had the time of his life when he went to a Jays game and got a game ball that was hit into the stands.
So, with such passion on the school field, why would the Jays cancel their summer program here?
Their baseball program was tied to the Elementary Literacy and Numeracy Summer School Program. No summer school, no baseball camp.
After accusing school boards of “wasteful spending,” the Ford government took over the boards and cut the summer program at Rawlinson and other schools.
So, no more math. No more literacy. And no more Blue Jays baseball at Rawlinson this summer, or any other summer.
There wasn’t enough room in the education budget. But there was enough room for a $30 million private jet for Premier Doug Ford.
See if you can read that curveball.
