Ontario Education Minister approves more deals with teachers

Ontario Education Minister approves more deals with teachers
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Published: Friday, Nov. 23 2012, 12:22 PM EST

Ontario Education Minister

Summary:

Ontario's Education Minister has approved four more deals between schools, boards, and high-school teachers. This will help schools return to a normal academic year. These deals were identical with the agreement reached with the English Catholic teachers. Thames Valley, Avon Maitland, District of Niagara School Board are the latest to reach the deal with the Ontario Education Minister. There are schools that are still awaiting approval from the Minister. Union members will also be asked to approval the deal. High school teachers at more than 20 boards are in legal strike position. Many of these teachers are restricting their withdrawal of services to administrative duties and supervising outside their classrooms. All teachers have said that this is a strike targeting administrators, not students. But many students marks have been suffering because of the strike. Also teachers have attended to restrict supervising students at lunch and in the hallways. This is a great concern for the students and the for high-school officials because of the safety of the students.

My Opinion:

 I think that the teachers and the school boards that have not yet approved the deals with the Ontario Education Minister are making the students suffer a lot because of the restrictions that the teachers are making for themselves around the school. I also think that supervision of kids should be mandatory everywhere because of all of the kids that get bullied around the world. Many kids have committed suicide because of bullying and I think that the school boards should be very strict about the supervision of the students. I also am glad that the percentage of schools have gone down for strikes which allows kids to learn in depth their criteria. Teachers should find another way to get back at the administrators and not by punishing the kids. I think that students need to be learning everyday and not having teachers go on strike. To get into a good university, the students need to learn the criteria they have infront of them and they need a teacher to help them.