Mr. Drainville, I can’t believe you really think it’s easier to teach in preschool than in other grades. Have you ever spent a year in a class of 18 children who must learn the management of emotions, social behavior in addition to the skills required for their level?
Did you know that not all children sleep in the afternoon and that teachers have to manage behaviors during this time? Did you know that teaching through play is planned, like any other lesson? Have you seen five-year-olds who for several years have been throwing chairs, hitting, running away, having language and learning problems? All this, without resources, because there is only one TES (technician in special education) in the school to put out fires everywhere.
What planet do you live on? Have you visited schools or spent even an hour in a preschool class? Are you forgetting which clientele is in the 4-year-old preschool classes? A clientele with a disability or from a disadvantaged background. With that reminder, do you still think these classes are the easiest?
My spouse teaches preschool, her days are more tiring than mine, in teaching mathematics, in 4e et 5e secondary. No, she has no corrections to make like me; fortunately, because she has to go to bed much earlier to have the energy and the patience it takes to be in front of a group of five-year-olds.
Be aware, however, that his evenings are still occupied with preparing materials, planning educational activities (and that takes a lot, because children are tired after ten minutes), as well as searching the Marketplace for games and materials that she pays for out of pocket to furnish her class — since with the $200 budget she is given, she struggles to get paint and paper.
Mr. Drainville, it is not by making remarks that denigrate a category of teachers that you will succeed in countering teacher dropout! Could you show a little more respect in your ideas to support the profession? I never denigrate the work of politicians, even if I don’t always agree with their decisions; I believe that everyone does their best to advance society. I know it’s not easy to make decisions that will please everyone and that they are made for a better world.
I expect the Minister of Education to know the teaching reality, to listen to the community and to take care of the people who work with him so that our education system is healthy. You can no longer address teachers as you did today. You will lose everyone’s respect. I beg you to publicly apologize to the preschool teachers
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2023-08-21 04:05:24
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