Everybody laughed at Linda Owens’ comment on how to keep teachers in
rural schools.
It started seriously. The Thunder Creek School Division trustee said
school boards should pick out young people in schools and offer to pay
their teacher training at university if they promise to return and work
in rural schools.
Then Owens drew on a historic truism.
Once the teachers are in the community for a year “maybe they’ll meet
the guy working in the mine or farming …”
