{Split}-grade school rooms are pretty frequent in Ontario however a transfer by the Waterloo Area District Faculty Board (WRDSB) is elevating eyebrows and issues amongst mother and father.
Daryl Morris stated she was blindsided by a letter earlier this month saying her son’s Grade 4 French immersion class was being dissolved and the children had been absorbed into already {split} school rooms.
She instructed The Mike Farwell Present her son’s new class was one thing she’s by no means heard of.
“So now we have a 4/5/6 and it’s 25 students. So, you’re already beyond the actual class size limit the ministry says for this age group, Grades 4 to 8. Not only that, now you have a teacher that has to teach three different grade levels.”
She goes on to say this determination appeared to come back out of the blue.
“What I feel more than anything is so frustrated with the way the board does not communicate with parents. Nobody reached out before and said this would be a real possibility. Nobody said this is what happens when they make, what they call family classes.”
Alarm bells instantly beginning going off for Morris. She stated she worries in regards to the thought course of behind this determination and the long-term results.
“Education is one of the most important things we have in our society. And you don’t, as a parent, expect to send your kid to a public school on Ontario and get a subpar education. We always talk about falling behind other countries in the world, why are we doing this now?”
Morris stated maybe the toughest half is the issue she’s run into getting the solutions to these questions. She’s reached out to the board, native MPPs, higher ranges of presidency and different officers, however has but to obtain a passable reply.
Prior to now, the WRDSB has stated classroom shuffling is a yearly incidence, however pupil well-being is at all times saved in thoughts.
Morris stated now her household is contemplating their choices, which might embrace transferring their son to a distinct college.
