Comment 81117

By Michelle Martin (registered) - website | Posted September 20, 2012 at 20:20:37 in reply to Comment 81100

Let's be sure to remember that all teachers must fulfill duties that require many hours spent outside of the regular school day. These include meeting with parents, meeting with spec. ed. teachers or other professionals when necessary, planning lessons (the tiny part of the day that is called "planning time" is nowhere near adequate and is often sacrificed to provide coverage or supervision that is needed, last-minute, somewhere else in the school), marking work, writing report cards, attending regular staff meetings, attending school events in the evening...

They are already putting in considerable extra hours that are an expected part of the public service they provide, and accept that this is part of the deal.

There is the distinction, as Ryan notes above, between a hard work-to-rule protest where these hours are curtailed, which is not going on anywhere in the province, and this soft protest of choosing not to run extra-curricular activities that students themselves can choose not to join (since they aren't Ontario curriculum requirements, hence the word extra-curricular) that some teachers (certainly not all, and no one in this house) are publicly undertaking in order to make their point.

Comment edited by Michelle Martin on 2012-09-20 20:21:52

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