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Originally Posted by edslunch
The government is advertising their position on schools and teacher hiring like crazy. Must have seen it at least 6 times in half a ball game. I understand from the discussion here that 3000 teachers is not enough considering the number of existing and planned schools. I’m not aware that ATA has posted a public counter-proposal, so what’s the thinking for what an acceptable number is?
Edit: the fact that I can quote the exact UCP numbers while the ATA position is not well known seems like a problem for the PR war. The average person has no idea whether 3000 teachers is adequate or not.
Also is it true that none of the $8B for new schools has been spent or even budgeted yet?
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If Alberta spent to the national average on a per-student basis we would have about 6,000 - 8,000 more teachers right now, not 3 years from now.
You can enter your child's school or your neighbourhood school here to see the impacts of how many more teachers that school would have if they just properly funded education to the national average:
https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrI...U0NjYzMmYxNSJ9
My school would have 8.5 more teachers. So class sizes would go from this:
Kindergarten - 18/18
Grade 1 - 22/22/22
Grade 2 - 20/20/20
Grade 3 - 28/28/28
Grade 4 - 25/25/25
Grade 5 - 26/26/26
Grade 6 - 28/28/27
To maybe this:
Kindergarten - 12/12/12 - one more 0.5 teacher
Grade 1 - 17/17/16/16 - one more 1.0 teacher
Grade 2 - 20/20/20
Grade 3 - 21/21/21/21 - one more 1.0 teacher
Grade 4 - 19/19/19/18 - one more 1.0 teacher
Grade 5 - 20/20/19/19 - one more 1.0 teacher
Grade 6 - 21/21/21/20 - one more 1.0 teacher
Maybe we could have a Phys Ed teacher and a Music teacher (two more 1.0) and a teacher to plan for the success of the 240 English Language Learners our school has (40 or so of them who are brand new to Canada within the last six weeks). Or maybe we could afford more than one EA who is shared amongst the entire school for the dozens (approaching 100) kids who have diverse learning needs.