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Fall report cards for Ottawa’s public board elementary students might be delayed and incomplete because of partial strikes by teachers.
The teachers’ union was back to provincewide bargaining with the province on Tuesday. But report cards are due to be sent home Nov. 12, and it’s unclear if that will happen. “There may be changes to the timing and/or distribution of fall progress reports,” says a statement by the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board.
Other boards across the province are in the same situation. The Toronto District School Board told parents last week that it won’t issue fall report cards between Nov. 6 and 12 as planned because principals are already overloaded with extra work due to job actions by both teachers and support staff.
Teachers are giving principals paper copies of the progress reports. The reports don’t include marks, but rate students’ “learning skills and work habits” on a scale ranging from “needs improvement” to “excellent.” Subjects are also listed, with checks for whether students are progressing very well, well, or with difficulty.
Teachers won’t add comments, “complete or package” the reports, with the exception of “one brief comment per area” allowed for students in alternative programs.
This is an example of the Ontario fall progress report card, which does not contain marks. The section on the right is comments, which teachers on partial strike will not provide.
Teachers will also not conduct parent interviews about report cards unless they have a concern about a student’s progress. The Ottawa school board had scheduled a PD day on Nov. 20 to allow for parent-teacher interviews after report cards went home.
School board officials aren’t sure what will happen on Nov. 20 if report cards haven’t been issued or teachers are still on partial strike. “At this point we are hopeful that an agreement will be reached and sanctions will be over by the time of the PD day,” said a spokesperson.
Ontario Education Minister Liz Sandals has warned that another round of incomplete report cards is “unacceptable.”
” … we just don’t think that’s fair to the students, not fair to the parents, to not get the information about how your child is doing,” Sandals said during a visit to Ottawa last Friday.
Sandals said she is “quite concerned that parents would literally be going a year without a report card with proper comments and followup interviews with parents.”
Last June, the same job action by teachers delayed final report cards by two months as administrators spent the summer compiling and mailing lists of marks given them on paper by teachers.
Craig Tiber, who has two sons in Ottawa elementary schools, said he’s not concerned about a delay in report cards because he trusts teachers to let him know if there is anything he should be concerned about. “If he is having trouble, I believe they’ll be making contact. I don’t think it will be like, ‘When did this happen?’
“I just totally support the teachers,” said Tiber, interviewed at Featherston Drive Public School in south Ottawa on Tuesday morning. “Teachers here are fantastic. I’ve never met a better bunch.”
His seven-year-old son is in a program for autistic children at Featherston Drive. Another son in Grade 4 at Dunlop Public School needs educational support in the classroom, so he’s seen first-hand the importance of maintaining such services.
“I’ll just let the teachers do their thing, and let’s hope this gets resolved soon.”
Beginning Wednesday, the 76,000 teachers who belong to the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario will step up their job action by also withdrawing from extracurricular activities. This would cancel choirs, clubs, teams and intramural sports such as basketball, volleyball and soccer.
Job actions have escalated since the school year began. Teachers now refuse to lead field trips, send class newsletters or update websites, attend parent-teacher nights, collect permission forms or money, or answer emails from principals. Support staff refuse to operate front-door security buzzers and have slowed down paperwork and reduced cleaning of schools.
The province has warned teachers and support staff to end the partial strikes by Nov. 1 or face having their pay docked or other penalties.
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The teachers’ union was back to provincewide bargaining with the province on Tuesday. But report cards are due to be sent home Nov. 12, and it’s unclear if that will happen. “There may be changes to the timing and/or distribution of fall progress reports,” says a statement by the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board.
Other boards across the province are in the same situation. The Toronto District School Board told parents last week that it won’t issue fall report cards between Nov. 6 and 12 as planned because principals are already overloaded with extra work due to job actions by both teachers and support staff.
Teachers are giving principals paper copies of the progress reports. The reports don’t include marks, but rate students’ “learning skills and work habits” on a scale ranging from “needs improvement” to “excellent.” Subjects are also listed, with checks for whether students are progressing very well, well, or with difficulty.
Teachers won’t add comments, “complete or package” the reports, with the exception of “one brief comment per area” allowed for students in alternative programs.
This is an example of the Ontario fall progress report card, which does not contain marks. The section on the right is comments, which teachers on partial strike will not provide.
Teachers will also not conduct parent interviews about report cards unless they have a concern about a student’s progress. The Ottawa school board had scheduled a PD day on Nov. 20 to allow for parent-teacher interviews after report cards went home.
School board officials aren’t sure what will happen on Nov. 20 if report cards haven’t been issued or teachers are still on partial strike. “At this point we are hopeful that an agreement will be reached and sanctions will be over by the time of the PD day,” said a spokesperson.
Ontario Education Minister Liz Sandals has warned that another round of incomplete report cards is “unacceptable.”
” … we just don’t think that’s fair to the students, not fair to the parents, to not get the information about how your child is doing,” Sandals said during a visit to Ottawa last Friday.
Sandals said she is “quite concerned that parents would literally be going a year without a report card with proper comments and followup interviews with parents.”
Last June, the same job action by teachers delayed final report cards by two months as administrators spent the summer compiling and mailing lists of marks given them on paper by teachers.
Craig Tiber, who has two sons in Ottawa elementary schools, said he’s not concerned about a delay in report cards because he trusts teachers to let him know if there is anything he should be concerned about. “If he is having trouble, I believe they’ll be making contact. I don’t think it will be like, ‘When did this happen?’
“I just totally support the teachers,” said Tiber, interviewed at Featherston Drive Public School in south Ottawa on Tuesday morning. “Teachers here are fantastic. I’ve never met a better bunch.”
His seven-year-old son is in a program for autistic children at Featherston Drive. Another son in Grade 4 at Dunlop Public School needs educational support in the classroom, so he’s seen first-hand the importance of maintaining such services.
“I’ll just let the teachers do their thing, and let’s hope this gets resolved soon.”
Beginning Wednesday, the 76,000 teachers who belong to the Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario will step up their job action by also withdrawing from extracurricular activities. This would cancel choirs, clubs, teams and intramural sports such as basketball, volleyball and soccer.
Job actions have escalated since the school year began. Teachers now refuse to lead field trips, send class newsletters or update websites, attend parent-teacher nights, collect permission forms or money, or answer emails from principals. Support staff refuse to operate front-door security buzzers and have slowed down paperwork and reduced cleaning of schools.
The province has warned teachers and support staff to end the partial strikes by Nov. 1 or face having their pay docked or other penalties.
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