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Support the Just Demands of Education Workers and Teachers!
Education workers' and teachers' demands for proper wages and working conditions, for class size caps and overall investments in education will contribute to solving the problems that the anti-social offensive has given rise to, exacerbated manifold by the conditions imposed during the pandemic.
Inflation
and the stress of the pandemic are now causing their own serious crisis
in the education system with lack of staff and more significant social
problems for students and families and, by extension, for the staff.
Education workers who work with the most vulnerable students have long
since been at a breaking point with the majority of them making less
than $39,000 per year. Furthermore, they are laid off for two months
every year without pay during the summer break. Many are now leaving
the profession because their working conditions and pay are untenable.
Teachers point out that to address the learning that was missed during the pandemic, small class sizes are decisive, as are more immediate one-on-one human supports to help identify where problems lie and develop individualized solutions in real time. This means using public funds to take immediate measures to solve this problem which has emerged as a result of the interruptions in learning during the pandemic. Retaining educational support staff and providing them with a standard of living that doesn't require them to live in poverty will contribute to addressing the immediate problem of staff shortages.
Smoke and mirrors about online apps or handouts for private tutoring as the government proposes will not solve the problem. These proposals are, in fact, a scam to divert attention from whatever the government is up to to pay the rich. They cause chaos in the schools and then the very people who are the solution are blamed.
It is urgent we all support the just demands of education workers and teachers!
This article was published in
Volume 52 Number 35 - October 26, 2022
Article Link:
https://cpcml.ca/Tmld2022/Articles/D520351.HTM
Website: www.cpcml.ca Email: editor@cpcml.ca