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Originally Posted by marsplasticeraser
Kind of blows me away that the Sask teachers are striking because they want fewer students in their classes.
Like their grievance is they want to be more effective teachers, and they can't do that with so many kids.
Looking at my kids classes here in Calgary and they are 28-31 kids. It's a lot of rowdy kids and education must be compromised with such large class sizes.
Seems really easy for a government to agree to cap class sizes, I don't get why they are resisting?
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Very right.
I wrote my (UCP) MLA today because I have a concern about teacher shortages...but no body is talking about it outside of schools.
Teachers are choosing to leave teaching rather than deal with high class sizes and, frankly, a drastic amount of kids mostly aged 10+ that have behavioural and mental struggles.
On a daily basis we are short 1-2 teachers with no subs. It means others in the building are covering, if possible. This means no admin to lead the school or no PE or no fine arts.