The present funding formula was established at a time when there was a large French school in Prince Edward Island. The formula met the needs of the moment. Following the Arsenault-Cameron affair in 2000, four francophone schools were added. The problem is how to interpret the formula. You have to understand that we have small schools ranging from kindergarten to grade 12. Sometimes the formula itself is the problem; some factors are calculated and others not. At other times, the way the formula is interpreted causes enormous resource-related harm.
Consider a small school, for example. One factor in the funding formula deals with that. A school with 200 students or less will receive an additional teacher. That may be a junior high school offering grades 7, 8 and 9 on the anglophone side, or a school offering kindergarten to grade 12. With the variety of programs that we must offer from kindergarten to grade 12, it's impossible to believe that only one additional teacher can cover the shortfall. Our classes are obviously very small.
That example illustrates several factors that the formula doesn't take into account.