Increasing class sizes by four students and reducing the number of school teachers in the system through attrition and retirements.
Those are a couple of possibilities the provincial government is considering to reduce spending in education, which the province claims could save between $60 million and $82 million a year.
Concerned Citizens of Charlotte County co-chair, John Gardner doesn’t think this is the way to go. “It’s not going to make a lot of sense in the future to have teachers that are too stressed out, and unable to function, because they have too many kids in their class.”
Gardner says we have been investing in education for a long time, so why aren’t we collecting on the investment. “Taking away their [ the teachers’ ] EA’s, and all of this, isn’t going to work. We’ve got to do something other than that. We’ve got some really great teachers here, really innovative teachers here, I don’t want to see them cut.”
The Concerned Citizens group holding a Town Hall meeting at the Garcelon Civic Center on Saturday to discuss the options in the Strategic Program Review, and to inform residents on how those options will affect us in Charlotte County.
