“BOARD VOTES FOR JOB CUT PLAN”
The TDSB will cut 36 Teacher Librarian jobs for the 2009/2010 school year. While they won’t completely get rid of the TL’s job, their workday will be cut from 0.6 to 0.5. Some trustees argued against the cuts saying, “in these hard economic times, when we know 60 per cent of children are growing up poor and will get poorer, we can’t pull teachers out of the most impoverished schools.” Trustee Sheila Cary-Meagher rejected all the suggested cuts and said, “forty years of research shows us teacher-librarians make a difference.” While I agree that cuts will have to be made (if we don’t want a provincial supervisor coming in and making cuts), I fully disagree with the boards decision to cut TL’s to 0.5. Our students deserve more!
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I don't understand how this keeps happening! There is so much research that shows the measurable contributions teacher-librarians make to student achievement. Is it that the research is not known to the boards or not trusted by them?
ReplyDeleteIt's a harsh reality that school districts across Ontario are making each year. Bottom line, we don't have an updated document to support our work and until we do we will continue to be on the chopping block.
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