My minister despairs me. Instead of using her energy and time to convince her colleague Sonia LeBel to improve the teaching and therefore learning conditions for public school students and to increase the salary so that it covers at least the inflation in a context of labor shortage, it tries to portray teachers as privileged.
Mr. Drainville, be honest! The majority of mid-career teachers earn $16,000 less than their colleagues in Canada. Is this the case for the deputies of the National Assembly? No, after your 30% increase, you are, by far, the highest paid in Canada.
Of course, teachers at the top of the scale will earn more than $100,000 per year in five years, but they will not be richer and certainly not more numerous if you do not offer them inflation and if you persist in worsen the composition of classes with your requests for flexibility which unfortunately always rhymes with the integration of students with serious problems into ordinary groups, and this, without reducing the ratios in them.
My dear minister, let us be educationalists, not demagogues.
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