On eve of strike, Alberta teachers say students ‘falling through the cracks’

The teacher’s strike is “inevitable”, said the trade union representing Alberta's teachers on Sunday, when thousands of people gathered in Edmonton. The eve of the blowField

“Right now the strike is inevitable. Tomorrow (Monday) we will start a blow. Association of Teachers of Alberta President Jason Shilling said.

Shilling said that teachers would take about a week to confirm any new deal.

He added that the union and the province “returned at the table right now.”

“We just allow these negotiations to go at the table outside the media -eyed so that we can try to find a solution to the problems that the teacher see,” he said.

According to Shilling, Alberta had the “least funded education system for ten years.”

“This is a crisis,” he said.

Teachers at the Sunday rally called on the province of the province to better finance the Alberta State Education System.

“Schools are underfunded. Students deserve much more and more. And we cannot give them them. Without this financing and without this support in classes, children simply do not receive an education that each of them deserves, ”said Lorry Kelly, a mathematics teacher in high school.

Kelly said that she had to do everything possible so that her students had everything they need.

“I am in charity stores throughout the summer in search of what parents may not put – calculators, geometry sets.”

Sunday rally also included parents.

“They do this for our children. This is the meaning of the strike, ”said Nancy Kirkpatrik, who has two children in high school.

In his statement, the Alberta government called on the trade union to continue to speak.

“We asked ATA to return to the negotiation table this weekend,” said the representative of the ministry. “They were not available for official negotiations. Our goal is to keep our children in the classroom. We are ready to return to the negotiation table as soon as the ATA management is ready. ”

Shilling said that the problem of underfunded schools most affect students.

“Too many students fall through cracks, and the teachers are tired of watching how they run through cracks every day,” he said.

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Another question in which the size of the class arises, he said.

“Having taught classes from more than 40 students, I don’t get enough time with every student to work with them the way I want,” he said.

51,000 teachers of the provinces recently voted by almost 90 percent to reject the last government’s proposal, which led to the extreme deadline for Monday.

Offer It included an increase in wages by 12 percent for four years and a promise to hire another 3,000 teachers.

The province also proposed to cover the cost of a puncture of the teachers. He also said that he was ready to agree on other conditions “within”.

Nevertheless, Shilling said that the proposal of hiring is the “fall of a bucket”, compared with 5,000 teachers who, as Ata say, are necessary to comply with the desired ratio of students and teachers.

The Minister of Education Demetrios Nikolids said on Thursday that the province has already posted a curriculum that parents can use to teach their children if teachers fulfill their promise to leave work.

In an interview, Nicholas said that it was unfair that students will be forced to bear the main severity of the blow, which will affect more than 700,000 students in 2500 public, separate and franco -speaking schools.

“This is the main reason why we collect this set of tools,” he said. “So parents, if they wish and are capable, could support the continued academic progression and teaching their child.”

ATA says that its members admit that the strike may inconvenient, but Shilling insists that they are defending children.

– with files from the Canadian press

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