Brock Eldon writes: "In Canadian classrooms today, the biggest threat to education is not student indifference or the proliferation of smart phones. Increasingly, it’s the students themselves."
I am a teacher and things are bad in the classroom. We have many students who have never heard the word no and don’t respect authority or anything else. How does anyone maintain order of 30 students with 7 kids who are determined to cause chaos. We have too many children of different needs and levels of learning. I have only taught for 5 years and I am thinking of quitting. Something has to change.
While a single school system is ideally the way to go, it seems we must regress to the time when Ontario was full of ''black Donnelly'' situations which were too common. Some time ago Ontario decided to create Catholic and Protestant school boards, plus a black school board since given the white-on-white violence it was more or less required.
Another problem is a lack of interest by parents or other citizens in running school boards. When the participation rate is only by 10% you no longer have a democracy. You have super-minority rule. Eliminate these school boards. Beginning grade 9 all schools should be private based on any criteria but must follow province-wide curriculum. Discipline within a school could be more readily applied. Parents who do not like that can consider home schooling or disciplining their own thugs.
School choice is the only way to go. Teachers and parents need options. Why would anyone want to send their children to public school anymore? It’s failing everyone.
I am a teacher and things are bad in the classroom. We have many students who have never heard the word no and don’t respect authority or anything else. How does anyone maintain order of 30 students with 7 kids who are determined to cause chaos. We have too many children of different needs and levels of learning. I have only taught for 5 years and I am thinking of quitting. Something has to change.
While a single school system is ideally the way to go, it seems we must regress to the time when Ontario was full of ''black Donnelly'' situations which were too common. Some time ago Ontario decided to create Catholic and Protestant school boards, plus a black school board since given the white-on-white violence it was more or less required.
Another problem is a lack of interest by parents or other citizens in running school boards. When the participation rate is only by 10% you no longer have a democracy. You have super-minority rule. Eliminate these school boards. Beginning grade 9 all schools should be private based on any criteria but must follow province-wide curriculum. Discipline within a school could be more readily applied. Parents who do not like that can consider home schooling or disciplining their own thugs.
School choice is the only way to go. Teachers and parents need options. Why would anyone want to send their children to public school anymore? It’s failing everyone.