Teachers across Ontario will be wearing red and sending Ford messages ahead of our bargaining coming up in September. We would love solidarity from others!
What you can do:
- wear Red for Ed
- make a social media post with one or all hashtags: #RedforEd #OntEdUnited #BigDifference
- call or email your MPP, Ford or Calandra and tell them what they are doing to our public education is not acceptable
Some of our key points we are pushing tomorrow:
- $6.35 billion has been cut from education since 2018 (they continue to say there are "record levels of funding" but this doesn't take into account inflation)
- smaller class sizes with clear caps are necessary for all students to succeed - there is NO cap for classes grades 4-8 right now...some have nearly 40 kids crammed in a classroom designed for 20
- inclusion requires supports - putting students with special educational needs in a mainstream class with either no support or very little isn't inclusion, it's abandonment