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Originally Posted by wireframe
I have not found a single teacher in my extended circle that voted yes. Expecting a strike next week, right when I have to travel for business. Ouch.
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As a parent it's hard not to side with teachers.
The biggest issue for me is that increasing class sizes have made a teachers job harder (more kids to control, more disruptive kids), more time consuming (test marking for example), and I suspect less fulfilling.
My own anecdotal, first hand experience is:
- 1980s: class sizes were from 16 to 25 students
- 2025: Class sizes of 30 to 33 for my children in elementary and junior high. I have heard anecdotally that classes are up to 40 in high school.
It's baffling that in the 1980s Alberta was so poor, but Getty kept the schools funded.