Many are concerned about the impact of strikes in education on children with learning difficulties.
This anxiety is mainly fueled by analysts and certain business institutions who despair of seeing the popular support enjoyed by teaching staff.
It is not the strike that should worry us the most for the fate of these children, but the risk that they will return to school in the same conditions which contributed to increasing their difficulties.
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The school is no longer responding
The CAQ government is showing off a lot with its demands for flexibility, to the point of having staged a psychodrama of the late assignments made in August when the true portrait of the school clientele is known. However, he fails to mention that the majority of assignments were completed before the summer vacation.
The real problem is not there! It is rather found in the shortage of staff, both teaching and specialists. I regularly see that children have fallen two or three years behind, if not more, in their learning, without the school having intervened, due to a lack of specialized staff.
It is not uncommon for schools to suggest that parents have their child assessed by external professionals who charge a lot of money. They are made to believe that this is the way to obtain service when it is completely false. These parents pay for their child’s evaluation and often for private services afterward.
Do more
The ultimate objective of the Legault government is to do more with less. He does not differ from his predecessors in this path which has led us to the current catastrophe.
The number of struggling students has exploded exponentially over the past two decades. Let’s salute all these teachers who fight to offer a real chance to children in difficulty to be able to progress in their learning!