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Originally Posted by Ashartus
What I've heard is it relates to teacher work hours vs. budget. Professional days count towards the days a teacher has to work each year. The school boards don't have to pay all the support staff on professional days though, so they save a huge amount of money each time they have one. So they have been reducing instructional days to barely meet the minimum hours by increasing the number of professional days. Apparently the public board hit the minimum hours a few years ago, and the Catholic board got there this year.
As far as what they do - when my wife has one it usually seems to be half a day of external workshops and half a day at her school for planning meetings, team building exercises, etc. depending on the principal.
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If I'm taking your word for it do you realize how insane that sounds? They dont have the budget? They've got the second highest budget in the Province, second only to AHS.
When do they realize that they are paying support staff and administration too much?
"We dont have any more money, get the kids out of school by adding some PD days."
Heaven forbid we trim some administrative fat though right? Because then our children will be morons by spending more time
in school.