There was no snarling or gnashing of teeth when Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s transition team met with teachers unions and school board observers on Wednesday.
That has Wynne optimistic that sports and clubs can resume in public schools soon.
Wynne calls extra-curriculars critical for the well-being of students, citing this week’s TDSB report about students being stressed out.
“Academics are extremely important but if you can be part of a drama club, if you can be part of a robotics club or you can be part of a sports team, that’s a really good way to round out your experience. I believe that that reduces stress,” Wynne said. “I want extra-curriculars back and I want them back as soon as possible.”
But she won’t be ripping up the imposed teacher’s contracts to get the voluntary programs back.
Education minister Liz Sandals said the meeting among the transition team, teachers unions and school board officials on Wednesday had a positive tone.
“I think there’s consensus amongst everybody that it’s time to get things working again,” Sandals said.
“The students and the parents miss extra-curriculars, but so do the teachers. The teachers want the extra-curriculars back,” Sandals added.
The meeting lasted two hours and more meetings will be held this week.
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Absolute nonsense! If teachers missed their beloved extra-curriculars so much, why not do the sensible thing and start them up again…why not? We know why not – because they plan to stick it to kids & parents just in case everyone forgets how upset they are. I mean some of us might have been on our 2.5 month vacations this past little while and not seen any media coverage about their hurt feelings… Oh wait, most of us don’t get 2.5 months of vacation we get (sometimes at most) 2.5 WEEKS! But let’s be fair and rational, teachers work hard for those perks whereas the rest of you are just lazy, whining complainers who don’t deserve the perks that publicly funded teachers deserve. If anyone is angered by these poor helpless teachers being mercilessly forced to take it out on kids, then maybe they simply need to get a job as a teacher and experience how unfair it is to work passionately at their job, put in some volunteer hours, then receive more pay, benefits & vacation than the other people on their street combined!
Last night I saw on the news that “Her Highness” Wynne was willing to testify about the Gas plant rip-off. Will she testify under oath, with penalties for perjury, same goes for for Chris bentley and King Dalton. The people of Ont want election ASAP!!
Nothing would change. We’d have the same deadlocked bunch in another minority government except we’d be minus several millions to pay for an election nobody else wants.