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Originally Posted by Slava
Well, all I mean is that those things take time. You're not just magically constructing schools to resolve this strike. This is why I think that the resolution of the strike means trusting the government to follow through...which I know for sure is not something that you think is a great idea!
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Why have it trust based? It's possible to write a contract that has commitments included with penalties outlined as well as timelines. They could say: class size caps will start at these number and reduce at this rate over this time. Any class that is above said cap will result in additional funds being provided to the school to allow hiring of additional EAs or to compensate the teacher directly for the increased workload.
Obviously this would require starting to actually capture class size data again. In order to meet that commitment the province would need to fund the building of sufficient schools to meet growth, but that is something they claim they are doing anyway. Instead the province is just saying that class size caps are impossible because there aren't enough buildings. Guess who has the power to fix that problem?