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RSS FeedsOntario´s plan to raise class sizes will lead to loss of 800 public high school teaching jobs in Toronto, TDSB document shows
(The Star Fashion & Style)

 
 

18 march 2019 03:27:42

 
Ontario´s plan to raise class sizes will lead to loss of 800 public high school teaching jobs in Toronto, TDSB document shows
(The Star Fashion & Style)
 


The Ontario government’s blueprint to increase class sizes will mean the loss of approximately 800 public high school teaching positions in Toronto, according to a TDSB document obtained by the Star.It’s a number that, according to a local teachers’ union executive, would decimate the city’s secondary school system“No government cuts what amounts to close to 20 per cent of the expert classroom staff from programming and at the same time says that they are doing their best to help students succeeed,” said Leslie Wolfe, head of the Toronto local of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation.“This, to me, is a decimation. They are in the process of manufacturing a crisis in publically funded education at the high school level.”The plan, announced by Education Minister Lisa Thompson on Friday, will bump up the number of students in each class from Grade 4 to Grade 12. At the secondary level, the average class size will grow to 28 from 22. In the lower grades, an average of one student will be added to each class.The education ministry is still holding consultations with families, staff and school boards but Friday’s announcement was to provide school boards with information to build their budgets and staffing models.READ MORE:Ford government announces hikes to high school class sizes, but no changes to kindergartenMaybe it’s actually a good thing if I don’t understand my kids’ homeworkThe Toronto District School Board, in a document distributed to school trustees, did the basic math on the announced changes to gauge the impact on how many teachers will be lost. It calculated that there will be 216 fewer teachers in Grade 4 to Grade 8 in addition to the 800 at the secondary level. Approximately another 82 high school positions will be gone with the reduction in funding for secondary programs.In protest, classroom teachers began an online campaign over the weekend encouraging each oth ...


 
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