I think everything Gordon said is absolutely true. I'm impressed with what I see in schools. I'd also add that we're adding new burdens into an under-resourced sector. I come from a family of teachers. There has always been the challenge of what else they need to do in the day, aside from deliver on the curriculum. Administrators are challenged to provide what they see as increasing connections to social services that are stretched.
I think the school is a wonderful place to do some of that work, and I think we need these wraparound supports. My answer to an earlier question about access is that the social safety net seems to be quite frayed. I think it was fraying before the pandemic, and it is increasingly frayed. School is part of that, as well as the health care system, as well as the social services that clubs, for example, provide. There are lots of families and kids, unfortunately, falling through the gaps. They're falling through the gaps at schools because of that under-resourcing. It's happening now because of staffing challenges in social services, and because of a lack of financial capacity.
That's something that I think as a society we're going to have to address one way or another. At some point, the bill will come due.