A message from Trillium Lakelands District School Board
An agreement has not yet been reached between the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario (ETFO) and the province, and so Trillium Lakelands District School Board (TLDSB) teachers and designated early childhood educator (DECE) staff will be on strike and all elementary schools will be closed to students on Thursday, February 6. Secondary schools will remain open.
Daycares, before and after school programs, and community use of school after-hours programs, are not affected by the strike. Bus transportation will not be provided to TLDSB elementary students. TLDSB does provide bussing to Catholic schools in Muskoka and in the City of Kawartha Lakes, therefore buses will still be running. Please do not put your elementary TLDSB child on the bus on Thursday.
ETFO has also announced two strike days for next week—a full strike across the province on Tuesday, February 11, and TLDSB participation in a rotating strike on Thursday, February 13. If an agreement is not reached by these dates, all elementary schools will be closed to students on February 11 and 13.
There is financial support available to parents of eligible children for each day of school that is missed due to labour disruption. Parents and guardians of TLDSB students are asked to visit the Ministry of Education website at Ontario.ca/SupportForParents or the dedicated Support for Parents Helpline at 888-444-3770.
Updates will be provided to you as more information becomes available. To find out the status of labour action in TLDSB continue to visit tldsb.ca/labour-updates/.
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The loss of one TA means that your grandchild is no “longer learning anything”. That’s more worrisome to me than the strike issues. It means the teacher isn’t teaching ….. There have always been learning differences, now they are just identified.
I would really like to know what the big problems in negotiation are. What is it, with specifics, that the government is proposing that the federation doesn’t like. Are primary class size limits being raised from 20 to something else. Are junior class size limits being raised? What is the innuendo about FDK being withdrawn. It’s hard to know what to believe when you are not given any information. And that’s from both sides. I’d like to see something more specific that “cuts hurt kids”.
In my view the main problem is a lot of kids are not getting and education at all. that being said some are but teachers today just don’t seem to be able to teach like they did years ago. Maybe back then the kids were smarter but somehow I don’t think so maybe they had smarter parents that taught them at home but i don’t think that was the case either so that leaves it that the teachers were just better at there job. Makes me wonder just how the teachers of today could cope with teaching kids from grade 1 to grade 8 in the same class if they can’t teach 25 kids all in the same class. My view is if they want more money they should start showing a lot better results from there work then they would be like most other folks show me you deserve more money and then we will talk..
Yes I had a five year old banned from riding the bus back in the 70 s for damage done to the bus. Driving the bus is not an easy task. Having the class for five hours is a lot different then for an hour at a time. We had older students monitoring the bus so the drivers did have some help. I know of drivers who gave out treats to keep the children quiet.
Please support the teachers, and teaching assistants, who are trying to support the children.
I have a grandchild, who has lost his TA, and without speech, is no longer learning anything in the classroom. The teachers now have many kids with disabilities in the class to deal with and need extra hands, so all kids get a quality education.
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Christine Rivière-Anderson thank you very much. My comment reflects my personal opinion, being at the same time an example of the principle of reversibility of a sentence or how one prefers linguistic conversion. In my comment I processed the whole text constituting the content of the previous speaker’s comment. At the same time, I would like to clearly emphasize that I was not guided by any prejudices while working on this text.
My comment was in response to Laurie Lynn not to Waldi Frankiewicz.
How sad that this is what you believe…
I suggest you walk in the shoes of any teacher for a day or two and then tell us what you observed. I bet you would have a very, very different opinion.
These teachers have something to complain about and it is good that they encourage children and parents to strengthen their position. Doug Ford everyone knows your games well. It’s not good enough to judge others by his own vision. Some of these older teachers can barely meet existing requirements.Open for Business requires more work and skills from these teachers to make working poor parents of these children realize that the work they do and pay their bills is not in vain. All teachers accept that they have a damn good education.This education has cost years of study and a lot of money to pay back. No one has the right to increase the classroom limit by almost three more students. The legitimacy of this right is undermined by the view that 2.5 more students do not change the teachers’ situation too much. Because, according to this opinion, the same students get on the school bus behind the driver’s back, in fact, sometimes twice as many as in the classroom, and every day the same drivers drive the same children to and from school without EA on the bus and do not complain about their plight… I’ll say more. They’re used to not complaining suffering. Mr. D Ford, aren’t the signs of violence and symptoms of mental health degeneration of these social groups under pressure?
These teacher have nothing to complain about and are levering children and parents to empower them. Doug Ford don’t fall for their games. They already have it good enough. Some of the senior teacher hardly even have education themselves. Ontario’s Open for Business requires these teachers work to allow the working poor to work and pay their bills. All teachers need to accept they have it damn good and 2.5 more students isn’t changing a lot. Same students get on a school bus behind the back of a driver actually more than twice the amount in a classroom and drive those same children down the road to and from school everyday without an EA on the bus … are we seeing violence and mental health then ?
Let’s get real here !!!