The government has officially withdrawn the proposal to cut support services and increase class sizes. We reached 413 signatures and those numbers proved impossible for the ministry to ignore during our final briefings. I will continue to track the implementation of the new budget to ensure these commitments remain in …
October 25, 2015
Final supporters
Mr. Couillard,
In the Montreal Gazette on August 28th you are quoted as saying “each time I see people protesting, I think about people not protesting. For one person protesting, there are probably hundreds of people not protesting.
There may not have been many protestors in St-Georges-de-Beauce but those protestors represent tens of thousands of people who support quality education for the Quebec youth.
We DO protest!
- Dramatic reduction in support and services to students with special needs.
- The increase in student teacher ratio.
- Removal of codes that identify students with special needs in the classroom.
- Increased work loads for teachers, staff and administration.
- Adjusting previously agreed upon pension plans.
What does this mean?
- Students with special needs will have even less support.
- Major increases in the number of students in classrooms, adding an average of 2-5 more students, possibly more...
- Research supports small class sizes for at risk students. They will be affected.
- Teachers already struggle to manage in inclusive environments - it will only get harder.
- Less jobs for young teachers.
Don't give up on public education.
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
September 1, 2015
Reached 100 supporters
August 31, 2015
August 29, 2015
We are approaching the one hundred signature mark which is the threshold required to trigger our formal submission process. Please ensure your contacts have signed so we can move this petition onto the desk of the Minister of Education immediately.
101 Comments
cuts now and the resulting lower education standards will lead to more expenses later as many of today's youth will not have the education to lead productive lives as adults and will rely on social benefits. These are false economies and will do no good at all.
The problem with our government is that they send their own children to private schools, therefore have no clue about the realities of public education classrooms. The public also has to realize that our fight is NOT FOR OUR SALARIES, it's for our children.
I challenge anyone of your staff that has had a hand in these cuts , to come spend 1 day and keep control of a class . This class would be larger , include special needs students and very little or no support staff .... bonne chance !
Loss of codes disadvantages all - the children that need assistance, those that don't, and the teacher doing his/her best to teach. Number of students per class - there has to be a maximum and there is an optimum number to be fully efffective.
More and more students are falling through the "cracks", because of this I have a job teaching high school in adult ed to students as young as 16. Do you not think that there is a preexisting problem that will just be exasperated if we continue on this path?
Victor Hugo's 19th century remark, "He who opens a school door closes a prison," still holds true today. We are underinvesting in public education, in our teachers, in arts and sports programmes, etc and it's time we correct this. We need strong public education. Please support Quality Education!
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The government has officially withdrawn the proposal to cut support services and increase class sizes. We reached 413 signatures and those numbers proved impossible for the ministry to ignore during our final briefings. I will continue to track the implementation of the new budget to ensure these commitments remain in …
October 25, 2015
Final supporters
Mr. Couillard,
In the Montreal Gazette on August 28th you are quoted as saying “each time I see people protesting, I think about people not protesting. For one person protesting, there are probably hundreds of people not protesting.
There may not have been many protestors in St-Georges-de-Beauce but those protestors represent tens of thousands of people who support quality education for the Quebec youth.
We DO protest!
- Dramatic reduction in support and services to students with special needs.
- The increase in student teacher ratio.
- Removal of codes that identify students with special needs in the classroom.
- Increased work loads for teachers, staff and administration.
- Adjusting previously agreed upon pension plans.
What does this mean?
- Students with special needs will have even less support.
- Major increases in the number of students in classrooms, adding an average of 2-5 more students, possibly more...
- Research supports small class sizes for at risk students. They will be affected.
- Teachers already struggle to manage in inclusive environments - it will only get harder.
- Less jobs for young teachers.
Don't give up on public education.
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
September 1, 2015
Reached 100 supporters
August 31, 2015
August 29, 2015
We are approaching the one hundred signature mark which is the threshold required to trigger our formal submission process. Please ensure your contacts have signed so we can move this petition onto the desk of the Minister of Education immediately.
101 Comments
As a teacher, I can definitely say these cuts will greatly impact the learning of your children. We can't keep going this way and expect our future generations to be well-educated, motivated and implicated in society.
cuts now and the resulting lower education standards will lead to more expenses later as many of today's youth will not have the education to lead productive lives as adults and will rely on social benefits. These are false economies and will do no good at all.
The problem with our government is that they send their own children to private schools, therefore have no clue about the realities of public education classrooms. The public also has to realize that our fight is NOT FOR OUR SALARIES, it's for our children.
I challenge anyone of your staff that has had a hand in these cuts , to come spend 1 day and keep control of a class . This class would be larger , include special needs students and very little or no support staff .... bonne chance !
Loss of codes disadvantages all - the children that need assistance, those that don't, and the teacher doing his/her best to teach. Number of students per class - there has to be a maximum and there is an optimum number to be fully efffective.
More and more students are falling through the "cracks", because of this I have a job teaching high school in adult ed to students as young as 16. Do you not think that there is a preexisting problem that will just be exasperated if we continue on this path?
Victor Hugo's 19th century remark, "He who opens a school door closes a prison," still holds true today. We are underinvesting in public education, in our teachers, in arts and sports programmes, etc and it's time we correct this. We need strong public education. Please support Quality Education!
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As a teacher, I can definitely say these cuts will greatly impact the learning of your children. We can't keep going this way and expect our future generations to be well-educated, motivated and implicated in society.