Leaving kindergarten students in a class without windows for a year, “this is not what we want,” says Minister of Education Jean-François Roberge. Quebec is in “catch-up mode” to renovate schools and in the meantime, it lacks premises, he admits.
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Jean-François Roberge reacted to the article published in The Press Wednesday, which recounts the steps taken for several months by a mother from Mascouche so that the students of a kindergarten class can have a room with natural light.
“What we do when we build, when we expand, when we renovate schools, we make a lot of room for natural light. [Des classes sans fenêtres]this is not what we want, but we are in catch-up mode, we lack premises in several schools, ”said the minister.
The Affluents School Services Center (CSSDA) says the situation is exceptional, but former teachers from La Source school testified to The Press that it has been so for many years.
“I am a kindergarten teacher in the same school. My class and that of several of my colleagues have no windows. I am surprised by the reaction of the school service center since in our school, half of the classes do not have a window and it is not temporary. The school is built like that. Everyone says it’s normal,” writes a teacher.
Doing school without a view of the outside is not a situation unique to this service centre.
“At my school, we have several classrooms without windows. The problem is that our students spend the whole day in these premises. They are autistic students and they do not move like regular students between the different premises according to their schedule, ”says a teacher from Laval.
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