(Trois-Rivières) François Legault relies on the creation of a virtual platform and on the collaboration of retirees and part-time employees of the education network to improve the assistance offered to students with learning difficulties .
Posted at 5:15 p.m.
Updated at 5:47 p.m.
Last June, the Québec Ombudsman, Marc-André Dowd, denounced that children are “waiting their turn” and that the services offered are “not always based on [leurs] real needs”. Parents then turn to the private sector, even if the Education Act provides that students in difficulty are entitled to complementary educational services.
By the time new remedial teachers and speech therapists are trained and added to school teams, the head of the Coalition avenir Québec (CAQ) promised on Tuesday to increase professional services for students thanks to a new virtual platform. which will allow them to be monitored online by professionals. “Retired professionals from the network and those who work part-time will also be invited to participate in the initiative,” said his party.
The CAQ thus proposes to invest 63 million during a potential second term in order to create this platform which “will make it possible to hold virtual meetings with a professional, for students who would otherwise not have access to this service, and this , regardless of the region. Services will be made available to public school students only.
“This platform will offer each student personalized content and a support service for parents who do not have access to specialized services for their child. They will thus be able to consult specialists from the Institute for Learning Disabilities (ITA) and other professionals in the network, ”explained the caquistes.
In a press scrum, François Legault clarified that the services that would be offered on the virtual platform would not replace those that must be given in person in schools. This is a complementary offer, he said.