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just another posted:I'd like to know more about those numbers. Is it typically low incidence/high need students (e.g. violent behavior, students who need help toileting or feeding, etc.) or are schools sending students with a mild intellectual disability home because the EA called in sick? Both, but the former is the bigger problem. Often the school has mostly given up on trying to accommodate a kid and they're down to an hour or less a day in class, and even that time is segregated from the rest of their peers. The Minister of Education has said he does not condone those choices, but sometimes it's hard to get the right support in place. We frequently advocate to get Behavioural Consultants in to figure out what kind of communication or help a kid needs to keep from exploding. The BCEdAccess exclusion tracker is gathering a lot of information, though it's more anecdotal than statistical. quote:I'm guessing it's the former and the decision is primarily based on student and/or classroom safety, but I know how the Ministry and it's messengers are talking about it, and they're using it as a cudgel to attack the union. I'd be interested to hear more about what's going on with that end of things. I don't know much about union/ministry relations. Pixelante fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Apr 24, 2019 |
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just another posted:Not so keen to explicitly link a name to my 10 year old SA account because there's probably some cringey stuff in my post history, but I'll try to whip up a concise email for you. Or just share out to the thread if there's interest, but it's kinda inside baseball-y. I'd be interested if you're willing to share. Just starting my teaching career now (finished my final evaluation today, in fact), and this is a topic of great interest to me.
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Pinterest Mom posted:There's no rule that says you can't just deal with some MLAs from the other parties on an ad-hoc basis, but party discipline tends to be very strong in Canada. In practice, you can only deal with other parties as entities, not with individual members. I feel like with such a small legislature PEI would be an ideal place for this though - more individual collaboration and less large blocs in legislature. Ontario Ed News: redundancy notices are coming down for boards all across Ontario and yours truly got one 
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Silver Spooner posted:I feel like with such a small legislature PEI would be an ideal place for this though - more individual collaboration and less large blocs in legislature. How much seniority did you have? That really sucks, I hope you find work in the meantime and don’t give up on education. Would you still be on the LTO list?
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DynamicSloth posted:https://twitter.com/TheCurrentCBC/status/1121140431935422465?s=19 Already gone, what did it say?
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Danaru posted:Already gone, what did it say? Did Jasmeet Singh reveal his childhood assault for political gain?
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Pleads posted:Did Jasmeet Singh reveal his childhood assault for political gain? Are you seriously anti-survivors telling their story if they happen to be a public figure? edit : im dumb also I hate how 99% of the time a tweet is posted in this thread its already deleted because of how quick twitter regret is vincentpricesboner fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Apr 24, 2019 |
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He's paraphrasing the deleted CBC tweet.
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Pleads posted:Did Jasmeet Singh reveal his childhood assault for political gain? Holy god drat that's loving pathetic 
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littleorv posted:Burn CBC to the ground Most of the time I will defend CBC Radio to the death but that tweet looked like it came from The Current, so, yeah. That's some cuttin' edge journalism there, Lou.
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infernal machines posted:Who was on the byline? I believe it was the official The Current account.
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Silver Spooner posted:I feel like with such a small legislature PEI would be an ideal place for this though - more individual collaboration and less large blocs in legislature. That's probably true! Nunavut is barely smaller than PEI and runs on consensus government. And apparently the Green leader is the PC leader's dentist 
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Risky Bisquick posted:How much seniority did you have? That really sucks, I hope you find work in the meantime and don’t give up on education. Would you still be on the LTO list? I have two years, there was 154 cuts and I’m at 116. I figure after retirements and surplus I’ve got a good chance of being recalled but I’m in the twist until then.
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Falstaff posted:I'd be interested if you're willing to share. Just starting my teaching career now (finished my final evaluation today, in fact), and this is a topic of great interest to me. Godspeed, noble goon. I have a lot of respect for what teachers need to cope with. Please try to be patient and kind with parents of kids with disabilities--they're fighting battles you can't see every single day. A lot of them are carrying things like PTSD from their experience of trying to keep their family safe.
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There's some sort of crazy irony that in the PEI referendum, MMP won in a majority of ridings and that doesn't matter.
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Falstaff posted:I'd be interested if you're willing to share. Just starting my teaching career now (finished my final evaluation today, in fact), and this is a topic of great interest to me. So the recent Liberal era of BC education was not a happy one. In 2002, language governing class size and composition ratios was stripped from the collective agreement by fiat. Class size and composition language was meant to do two things: one, it helped restrain teacher workload issues by setting class size limits, as well as caps on the number of special need students per classroom; and two, it set a minimum floor for services to be provided by school districts to students with special needs. The result of stripping this language was that school districts were able to hire fewer teachers, create bigger classrooms, and provide fewer services to special needs students. As well, during this period, certain special education categories were defunded. If a student receives the appropriate testing and is deemed to fit the criteria for a funded category, then that student’s designation obligates the Ministry to provide additional funding to the student’s district. It isn’t perfect, and it creates its own perverse incentives, but it provides a direct link between a student’s identified needs and the school district’s funding. After certain categories were defunded, there was a significant drop in the number of students testing into them. There was simply no longer an incentive to test for certain Spec. Ed. diagnoses. You would think it doesn’t matter because needs are needs, but in a climate of scarcity, where testing slots are few and far between, you end up making a lot of “lesser of two evils” decisions. I suppose you could make the claim that the designations decreased because they were artificially inflated to begin with. Given that designations are affirmed on a preponderance of evidence, usually including a Psychoeducational Assessment delivered by an accredited educational psychologist, I’m not really persuaded by that idea. What it really comes down to is that, if you have a student you suspect of being Learning Disabled (unfunded), and another student you suspect of having a Mild Intellectual disability (funded), and you’ve only got one slot with the educational psychologist in this round of testing, then you probably go with the student whose diagnosis is more likely to result in additional EA support or specialist teachers. Finally, during the Liberal years, the system saw massive reductions in funding as a percentage of GDP. Consequently, BC teachers are among the lowest paid in the country, and BC students receive fewer dollars in funding. The BCTF took the BC Government to court and eventually won back their class size & composition language. This necessitated a massive and ongoing teacher hiring spree. However, the government has not yet increased funding by any notable amount above what was required by BCTF’s court win. Whenever Horgan or Rob Fleming crow about how much more the NDP are spending on education these days, it’s kind of like an white collar criminal crowing about how much they volunteer after being court ordered to do community service. The Prevalence Model I’m just going to copy and paste parts of a BCTF articles on it: quote:[Prevalence funding is] funding allocated via predictive, statistical modelling based on population-wide prevalence rates instead. Such a model already exists in some provinces. For example, in Ontario, a large part of special education funding is distributed according to a “black box” statistical model that takes older provincial prevalence rates and tries to guess how many children in a given district will have special needs, based on chosen demographic information such as family income.” Can it work? Sure. I think some districts will do quite well. Districts with great leadership will probably benefit from the flexibility it affords. But I work in a district with lots of poverty and generational trauma, and with students whose parents are (by and large) ineffective advocates (and I say that without any judgment). We already fight tooth and nail for the supports we do have, and in my district at least, thinks still haven't actually improved in terms of class size & composition since the SCC win. We continue to lose EAs. There is no way we do better under prevalence than we do now. And, they haven't given any indication that funding will increase, or that the statistical models will take into account regional variations or needs (e.g. how much harder it is to get an autism diagnosis when you live in Prince George versus Richmond). From the Funding Model Report to Collective Bargaining So this funding model report comes out and it recommends moving to a prevalence model. In the report, the collective bargaining rights and the integrity of the BCTF is attacked. The report claims that a prevalence model is more equitable and inclusive, and it criticizes class size & composition language as exclusionary and harmful. The class size and composition ratios are repeatedly described as "restrictive" and as a source of frustration. It has lines like "students in some school districts have access to greater supports than their counterparts in other school districts", but these are meant to shame districts with superior provisions. It's implied that students are better off in districts with weaker composition language. All of this is asserted without evidence and none of it matches the experience on the ground. Now, from a narrow point of view, the Ministry is correct. The ratios do occasionally result in exclusions, and Inclusion consultants like Shelly Moore carry water for the Ministry on this point. But what I want to reiterate is that the ratios set a baseline for student services. Districts are always free to lobby the Ministry for more money, or to simply hire more EAs or specialist teachers by prioritizing such things in their annual budgets. Absent composition language, special needs students have a weaker claim to supports, classes suffer from being too large or having ability gaps too unmanageable, and any subsequent dysfunction is treated as the failure on the part of the teacher. It is my firm belief that any act of exclusion - of a Spec. Ed. student being sent home or told not to come to school - represents a failure by the district to comply with their own (mutually agreed-to) collective agreement language, and not a moral failure of the BCTF for fighting for such ratios in the first place. This funding model review began under the Liberals but was published under the NDP, and so the anti-union rhetoric was an extra hard slap in the face. The reaction was strong enough that its implementation was delayed by at least a year. However, implementation working groups are ongoing. At the recent BCTF annual general meeting, we debated pretty extensively whether or not we want to remain at the table for these working groups, given that their goal is implementation and not a new funding model review or proposal. My faction said no, walk away, let's not be complicit in this, there's other ways to pressure the Ministry; the other faction said there was greater value in staying at the table and trying to mitigate the damage. The other faction won, and so the BCTF remains at the table.  says its used against us when the prevalence model goes ahead, but whatever.2019 also saw the start of this round of contract negotiations between the BCTF and the Ministry. We're still not allowed to talk about what's been tabled, but I will say that it looks more and more like the NDP have let the Liberals' bureaucrats continue with business as usual, because between the funding model report and what's happening at the bargaining table, the Libs may as well still be in power. just another fucked around with this message at 04:07 on Apr 25, 2019 |
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Danaru posted:Already gone, what did it say?
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A book released to coincide with an election? Why I never. Reginald, fetch the rolls royce, we're leaving.
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Reality Winter posted:A book released to coincide with an election? Why I never. Reginald, fetch the rolls royce, we're leaving. The Audacity! (of hope)
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More ways Doug is turbofucking this province https://twitter.com/fatimabsyed/status/1121393279604490241?s=19
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Person whose job it is to tell the government when it's doing wrong? Oh yeah you knew he was going.
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Thanks for the BC education effort post. I’m a BC teacher working in Québec and this served as a good catch-up on what’s going on before moving back.
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just another posted:Stuff. Thank you. This must have taken you some time to assemble. I'm still interested in connecting if you ever feel comfortable emailing me--we might be able to help each other out. I'm also in the E/N Discord pretty often.
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Pixelante posted:Thank you. This must have taken you some time to assemble. I'm still interested in connecting if you ever feel comfortable emailing me--we might be able to help each other out. I'm also in the E/N Discord pretty often. Not sure how reputable People's Voice is but they just put out a good write-up of the situation today. Some key points I missed: quote:“... From the outset, unfortunately, the [funding model] review process [that recommended prevalence] has appeared to have serious flaws. For starters, Fleming appointed a review panel of senior bureaucrats to conduct a funding-formula review but didn’t include any representation from the BCTF, the B.C. School Trustees Association, or parent groups on the panel. Although senior bureaucrats have vast knowledge and experience, they tend to get to where they are by not rocking any boats or telling those in power things they don’t want to hear…
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Memes du jeudi pour gaspiller sa paye From France: Name this repressive shithole.  Right wing shock jock radios stations from Quebec City have the nickname “garbage radio”  Se partir une page de memes en 2017 remembers to publish content after a long hiatus  Baby boomers react: the new Canada food guide  (Old content). La Meute and their “impressive” turnout 
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Pixelante posted:Godspeed, noble goon. I have a lot of respect for what teachers need to cope with. Please try to be patient and kind with parents of kids with disabilities--they're fighting battles you can't see every single day. A lot of them are carrying things like PTSD from their experience of trying to keep their family safe.
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Nine of Eight posted:Memes du jeudi pour gaspiller sa paye Here's one from English Canada 
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just another posted:I probably will. Definitely want to build capacity to push back on this as hard as we can, especially if it goes through. How do I get on the E/N Discord? I think this will work.
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Aaaaahahahaha https://mobile.twitter.com/CBCToron...3D65%23lastpost Doug Ford finally hosed with the wrong group infernal machines fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Apr 25, 2019 |
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"I never thought Doug Ford would eat my face!" cries miserable old gently caress who voted for Doug Ford Eating People's Faces Party.
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Amber alert out for a missing kid in Peel.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Amber alert out for a missing kid in Peel. And found safe. I'm sure thousands complained about it on facebook and called their local police about it as well.
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SilverMike posted:gently caress, that looks almost as awful as what it's trying to lie about. If they want an actual "celebrating gay culture in Canada" coin, it should be just a normal loonie but instead of the Queen on the back it has Scott Thompson in drag as the Queen.
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https://twitter.com/TorontoStar/status/1121445035440996352?s=19 Ford train keeps rolling. It's insane to me that they cut these chump change things that actually have a good positive effect, but can't raise taxes half a point and generate hundreds of times the revenue. Can't do that. Never raise taxes and keep on going until zero.
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