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Unless there is a breakthrough in the labour dispute between the province and its public elementary teachers, Ottawa students will wake up Wednesday to find their school clubs, teams and choirs are cancelled.
Teachers plan to escalate their job action by withdrawing from extracurricular activities.
In elementary schools, most of those activities are held during recess or lunch breaks, and include everything from chess and drama clubs to intramural or team sports, which at this time of year include basketball, volleyball and soccer.
However, teachers will be allowed to do extracurricular work with students on anything related to Remembrance Day ceremonies, said Peter Giuliani, the president of the Ottawa-Carleton branch of the teachers union. “We know how important that is to the community.”
Education Minister Liz Sandals said last week that she was “disappointed” by the decision to escalate job action even as the province and union are set to go back to bargaining this week.
Parent Maria Rogers says it’s unfortunate that children won’t have a chance to participate in extras such as the cross-country running club that her son Maxwell, 9, enjoyed this fall at Woodroffe Avenue Public School. The season ended with a track meet several weeks ago. “It was fun.”
“But I really support the teachers,” added Rogers. “I know that class size is one of their issues.” Her younger son, Isaac, has 29 kids in his junior kindergarten class.
Alison Keenlyside, who has a child in Grade 1 at Broadview Public School, said the withdrawal of extracurricular sports and arts activities will probably affect underprivileged children the most. “It’s not fair for the people who don’t have the money. For the families that can’t afford to do things outside of school, this is their only chance.”
The situation is an echo of 2012-13, when both elementary and high school teachers withdrew from extracurricular activities in a labour dispute.
Elementary teachers have steadily escalated their partial strike since the beginning of the school year to pressure the province in contract negotiations. They refuse to take part in parent-teacher nights, organize field trips, collect permission forms, provide comments on report cards or do a host of administrative duties. Support staff across various boards, including office workers and custodians as well as classroom assistants, also have a list of job actions, from not operating front-door security buzzers to refusing to sweep the principal’s office.
Last Friday, Education Minister Liz Sandals said parents are fed up with dirty schools, reduced security and the prospect of another round of report cards being affected.
Sandals and Premier Kathleen Wynne gave the three unions involved until Nov. 1 to settle contracts or end their partial strikes. After that employees who aren’t performing their duties may have their pay docked or face other penalties.
Teachers have taken to social media to vent their outrage over the threat to dock pay. Accompanying the hashtag #mypayhasalwaysbeendocked are comments about how much they already spend out of their own pockets for classroom supplies.
“I’ve spent thousands on books & resources 4 my French Imm. classroom. 2 threaten us is bullying!” tweeted @bluebeanz30.
“Ready to take everything I bought in my class home, would be an empty room. Sick of being told I’m greedy,” said a post by @kethomps13.
“Just finished 3 hrs of marking on my Sunday so that students could receive timely feedback,” tweeted @JChristian80.
Jonathan So says this is his classroom after he bought supplies for it.
jmiller@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com@JacquieAMiller
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Teachers plan to escalate their job action by withdrawing from extracurricular activities.
In elementary schools, most of those activities are held during recess or lunch breaks, and include everything from chess and drama clubs to intramural or team sports, which at this time of year include basketball, volleyball and soccer.
However, teachers will be allowed to do extracurricular work with students on anything related to Remembrance Day ceremonies, said Peter Giuliani, the president of the Ottawa-Carleton branch of the teachers union. “We know how important that is to the community.”
Education Minister Liz Sandals said last week that she was “disappointed” by the decision to escalate job action even as the province and union are set to go back to bargaining this week.
Parent Maria Rogers says it’s unfortunate that children won’t have a chance to participate in extras such as the cross-country running club that her son Maxwell, 9, enjoyed this fall at Woodroffe Avenue Public School. The season ended with a track meet several weeks ago. “It was fun.”
“But I really support the teachers,” added Rogers. “I know that class size is one of their issues.” Her younger son, Isaac, has 29 kids in his junior kindergarten class.
Alison Keenlyside, who has a child in Grade 1 at Broadview Public School, said the withdrawal of extracurricular sports and arts activities will probably affect underprivileged children the most. “It’s not fair for the people who don’t have the money. For the families that can’t afford to do things outside of school, this is their only chance.”
The situation is an echo of 2012-13, when both elementary and high school teachers withdrew from extracurricular activities in a labour dispute.
Elementary teachers have steadily escalated their partial strike since the beginning of the school year to pressure the province in contract negotiations. They refuse to take part in parent-teacher nights, organize field trips, collect permission forms, provide comments on report cards or do a host of administrative duties. Support staff across various boards, including office workers and custodians as well as classroom assistants, also have a list of job actions, from not operating front-door security buzzers to refusing to sweep the principal’s office.
Last Friday, Education Minister Liz Sandals said parents are fed up with dirty schools, reduced security and the prospect of another round of report cards being affected.
Sandals and Premier Kathleen Wynne gave the three unions involved until Nov. 1 to settle contracts or end their partial strikes. After that employees who aren’t performing their duties may have their pay docked or face other penalties.
Teachers have taken to social media to vent their outrage over the threat to dock pay. Accompanying the hashtag #mypayhasalwaysbeendocked are comments about how much they already spend out of their own pockets for classroom supplies.
“I’ve spent thousands on books & resources 4 my French Imm. classroom. 2 threaten us is bullying!” tweeted @bluebeanz30.
“Ready to take everything I bought in my class home, would be an empty room. Sick of being told I’m greedy,” said a post by @kethomps13.
“Just finished 3 hrs of marking on my Sunday so that students could receive timely feedback,” tweeted @JChristian80.
Jonathan So says this is his classroom after he bought supplies for it.
jmiller@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com@JacquieAMiller
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