As a teacher, I can see the damage Ontario's education cuts will do, by mslongpre
. As a high school teacher with the Toronto District School Board, I can speak to how this will all look in the day-to-day experience of Ontario's children.This is very misleading, as the key word here is"average," as in the number of teachers at a school divided by the number of students. Keep in mind that guidance counsellors, who are teachers, have zero students, for example. And special education classes have, by necessity, as few as five or six students in them.
With this increase , classes will balloon to 40 plus. This is nuts. From a purely practical point of view, classrooms physically can barely handle 32 bodies right now. School buildings were not built with these numbers in mind. And, of course, from a pedagogical perspective, this will be disastrous for all kids, especially those who struggle and need extra help.CLAIM #2:"Bigger classes will foster resiliency and will mean more group work.
You guys. I can't even. Minister Thompson claims that university classes are huge, and so we should prepare our high school kids for this. Yes, post-secondary classes are bigger, and so the logic of"preparing" kids for this with bigger classes now is, in a way...
and we all do it. Larger classes will not mean more collaboration, it will mean more chaos and kids slipping through the cracks.This past Thursday, schools received their staffing allocation numbers . This number did not include guidance counsellors or librarians, but promised"a big announcement on April 23," which is one week after our legal staffing framework ends.
A reasonable conclusion to draw from this is that this government plans to replace those highly skilled, OCT certified teachers, with hourly-wage employees. Positions like"library technician" and"academic counsellor" could be farmed out to the private sector in order to save money. Not only would this be an incredible disservice to our students, it would result in huge job losses amongst, you guessed it, teachers.Students need 30 credits to earn a diploma in Ontario.
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