If the school was important (22)

When I colline for Saint-Jean (sorry. However, I get older), I try to remain positive because I like my Quebec, despite its flaws. Similarly, But this year, I do not want to be ex-post, to sing the slogan of the exhibitions of formerly.

Posted at 5:00 a.m.

This year, no Pou-Pou-Pouetique surge on the nation. Nevertheless, I just want to yell against the stab on the back of the schools ensured by the Caquist government.

At the end of the school year. In addition, when budgets were already made in school service centers, while Parliament had stopped sitting, the government imposed compressions if school important (22) of 570 million on schools.

The government continues to say that these compressions are not. Therefore, that this is a slowdown in spending growth – traditional CAQ and Liberals of Martin Coiteux, formerly.

The Minister of Education, Bernard Drainville, is suitable for lips that students’ services could be assigned. Nevertheless, He hopes not. Furthermore, The Minister is an informed type, he knows that this will be the case.

After my column out of the 570 million to cut¹I have received several messages. Consequently, which explain the details of the compressions imposed by the Ministry of Education at the Centers of Schools. For example, As expected: the most vulnerable students will helm first … Similarly, and the others too, by contagion effect.

Here, in a primary school in the Montreal school if school important (22) service center, it is $ 450,000 that we must cut for next year. Furthermore, It’s huge, for a school. In addition, The Orthopedagogue post has just jumped, in particular.

In another school in Montreal. In addition, from the Pointe-de-l’île school service center, a very, very disadvantaged school, it is the positions of the orthopedagogue, the psychoeducator, that of the teacher-resource and even the food measures which will undoubtedly be amputated.

There, in another school in Montreal, the attendant to the disabled students of kindergarten will be thanked.

There, special classes for children with learning disabilities. We will send them into “regular” classes …

Quebec makes the dirty job make the centers of school non-service. The CSS had 12 days to decide which school should cut which positions, what services. Twelve if school important (22) days!

And in schools. the dirty, the very dirty job to announce the compressions was made, face to face, to the height of teachers, orthopedagogues, your, psychoeducators, by upset school directions. A teacher who left for the private sector tells me how it happened in schools of his former public. colleagues: “Directions announce the new measures to the teams crying. »»

I quote another teacher. in Montreal-Nord: “Just at my school, if the ministry does not back, we will have to cut one of the two psychoeducators and one of the five orthopedagogues, even if the needs of students in difficulty are constantly increasing. »»

A school which owes Flusher posts of professional (orthopedagogues. psychoeducators, speech therapists) and technicians in special education first hurts students who have learning and behavioral difficulties.

Why these positions, orthos, psycho-ed, special education technicians?

Because teachers are (fortunately) untouchable in compression time. The other positions are not immune. So like the PQ once, like once the PLQ, we cut what we can cut (speech therapists, orthopedagogues, etc.) when Quebec imposes cuts on the school network. François Legault did not invent anything.

We make the course of these children even more difficult and we increase the risk of dropping out.

But the cuts that affect students in difficulty also affect students who do not have them. because teachers find themselves with students in difficulty that they cannot fully help: they have no training in school adaptation. It therefore affects, by contagion effect, students who have no difficulties in so -called “regular” classes.

I quote a professional if school important (22) for a long time who expects to lose his post:. “Teachers sometimes have more than half of their classes who have intervention plans for learning difficulties. But that’s not all: who will make the steps to tell a parent that a hot dog sausage is not a sufficient dinner. which will find the references for the parents in distress, which will set up the DPJ files …? Because that’s also school now. I am one of the professionals who do it all in addition to supporting teachers. because their workload is already heavy. It will now be up to them and them to do so. »»

I give up the final quote from this paper on the ignominy of. these compressions of 570 million to an assistant in preschool in the Quebec region:

“The 570 million compressions is more than if school important (22) a sum for us. It is the subtraction of expertise, collaboration, quality of teaching, the quality of our environment. It is the multiplication of stress for those who will remain. We lose the means of our ambitions. We impoverish a generation and the impacts will be lived over years … reconstructing what we destroy will be laborious. »»

Nothing to say …

Good Saint-Jean, everyone!

1. Read the chronicle “Fiasco Saaqclic: not worse than last year”