The issue of school populations in difficulty is not new. And yet…
Anecdotally speaking, I heard that a teacher in a school in Saguenay had to cover her forearms with chain mail to protect herself from possible bites from one of her students. Or that this lab school, built for 20 million dollars, had seen its mezzanine ramp replaced by a wall of compressed wood because young people, depressed, had threatened to throw themselves down.
The very latest editorial by Marie-Andrée Chouinard, delivered to Dutyconcerning the current negotiation of the public sector in education (the private sector would have all its staff?) is shockingly realistic.
Just to rehash a bit, successive governments since the beginning of the century have neglected to prioritize the situation of students in difficulty, in accordance with a policy put forward, that of school adaptation. Consequences: the catastrophic desertion of a growing number of young teachers from the profession; premature retirements of teachers exhausted and discouraged by the heaviness of the task; the declining interest of student populations in faculties of education.
I suspect that all these small catastrophes would not be so worrying in 2023 if they had not combined into a monstrous escalation.
And the electoral promise of a party leader to put education as a priority is window dressing, an empty promise and an insult to the intelligence of the voter.
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