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Originally Posted by woob
My problem with declaring teachers as essential service, is the risk that it’ll result in further disparity within the teachers salary structure. I could support such actions if it was in conjunction with a correction of salary, policy to address class sizes, and policy to address funding. However I have zero confidence the UCP would handle this appropriately and would merely use it to tie the hands of teachers.
The simplistic view of “mmmm pausing education is bad, k?” Is only one piece of the puzzle. I’m not sure how to quantify it, but I would guess class size, education funding, and poor morale among education workers would also have a detrimental impact long on term learning trends.
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John Hattie is an educational researcher who conducts meta analysis for educational impact. Collective self advocacy is identified one of the biggest effects on positive impact on student learning.
https://visible-learning.org/2018/03...ficacy-hattie/