Just tie salary (…a fair salary…) to inflation, then in good faith work on bridging funding gaps to narrow on things like classroom sizes, make it so teachers don’t have to go spend their own money on supplies (this one I think is just unethical, basically), building in enough latitude for some time for marking, incentivizing extracurricular time properly, etc.
Basically, deal with teachers fairly and in good faith and THEN if they strike sure, turn your back on them but to take the attitude that parents will be pissy after how the province has treated them thus far (previous years context included) seems a bit aggressive.
That said I appreciate Cliffs insights and enjoyed this discussion which is getting incredibly rare on this site.
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