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Originally Posted by malcolmk14
A few comments about not being sure what teachers want. I actually like the ATA's strategy of bargaining at the table and not in the media - it takes a lot of power away from the other side to criticize it or activate public support against it.
Anyway, here is what I'd like.
- 15% immediate salary increase with 3% a year thereafter (the nurse deal).
- stricter limits on instructional and assignable time (forcing the schools to hire more teachers) so that I have time within the regular work day to do the non-instructional parts of my job.
- more support in the forms of guaranteed funding for high needs students. For example a school I know of has more than 240 ESL students (50% of the population) and almost 100 students with IPPs and no dedicated ESL teacher, ESL assistant, or resource teacher. All of the associated preparation, instruction, and paperwork for every one of those students is left to the classroom teacher.
- phased in soft class size caps with teacher compensation for additional workload near the end of the deal. Penalties should increase as time goes on for not meeting the cap.
Honestly just partially addressing some of the things above would get me to vote yes. But the government refuses to even talk about any of these things. They are standing firm on 3% a year for four years and hiring 3000 teachers (there are 2000 public schools in Alberta). Where are these teachers even coming from? No one is banging down the door to teach in this province.
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I would put that 3rd bullet at the top just for optics if nothing else.
The amount of IPP's must be ugly (my kid on one). He's not a nightmare but definitely a little more work needed which is why we left public, not a chance it works out staying there.
It does sound like there is a certain poster that is choked that they now need to deal with their crappy kids instead of foisting them on a group of teachers, which is ironic.
My boss (who is an oil and gas worker because that is somehow relevant) wife is a t a school in the south where kids are biting teachers arms. They have given them shirts to wear. Apparently the covid kid thing is real and there are tonnes of buggered kids out there creating havoc in the classroom.