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RSS FeedsLast year, this Peel high school teacher finally landed a full-time job. This year? A layoff notice
(The Star Food)

 
 

18 april 2019 01:04:19

 
Last year, this Peel high school teacher finally landed a full-time job. This year? A layoff notice
(The Star Food)
 


Marta Bedard comes from a family of teachers — mom, sister, aunts — and “essentially grew up” in her mother’s elementary classroom in Peel Region.After leaving a career in public relations to become a teacher herself, Bedard spent years as a supply before finally landing a full-time position at Brampton’s Turner Fenton Secondary School last June.Now — less than a year later — Bedard could be out of a job. “It’s obviously devastating,” said Bedard, who is eight months pregnant and now facing additional worries about her young family’s future. “You work your entire career to get to the point of stability as a teacher, and that’s taken away from you.”Bedard is among the 176 elementary and 193 high school teachers who have received surplus notices from the Peel District School Board. Another 30 early childhood educators have also been told there is no job for them come September.It is the first time in several years that Peel has had to send out such notices, and while some will be recalled, the board says teacher layoffs are unavoidable this fall given the provincial government’s boost in class sizes and cuts to funding and local grants. While other boards have also sent out more surplus notices than in the past, Peel is the first to openly question the promise of Premier Doug Ford and Education Minister Lisa Thompson that no teacher will be out of a job — that all losses will be through attrition. On Wednesday, Thompson said “what we are hearing about coming from Peel Region is a routine process that is happening in every school board across Ontario” as they look at who is retiring, resigning or returning.“The fact of the matter is, what we are hearing about these recent weeks is a routine, absolute process that is done year in and year out.”She also reiterated that “there will be no involuntary job loss. And we actually pointed to th ...


 
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