According to a report by local, the new data received from the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) shows a dramatic spike in the use of non-teachers for teachers.
Local reports found that TDSB used emergency replacement about 300 times a day in the last school year. Emergency replacement is often a teacher of lunch, volunteer parents or teachers, not teachers or school staff.
The 2024/2025 school shows 1100 percent spike in the use of emergency replacement since 2017 with covering 51,000 absent teachers in the year.
KT Dupuis, a parent in Toronto, said, “It can be very stable. You come home, your teacher has not gone there, and you are not sure they are coming back.”
Dupis told Citynues that two of its primary-class children bring almost every day absent teachers last year.
He said, “We are listening to stories around the table, in dinquitime, about which the teacher is missing, in which class there was no teacher, who is filling the option.”
TDSB stated that emergency replacement in a statement is “one of the last measures to ensure the necessary levels of students, when teachers, sometimes teachers and school staff are unavailable.
Non-teachers are screened, interviewed and police have completed investigation. They are requirements for only one class option.
“We have to ensure that our students have access to qualified, educated professionals each day to ensure that there are no learning intervals to ensure that there are no learning intervals,” said Martha Hradovi, President of Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation (OSSTF).
Needable teachers do not come from shortage. In fact, the OSSTF note currently has more than 40,000 teachers in the province who are not working in the profession.
Nuts are allegedly inspired by poor functioning such as workplace violence, illness and large class size.
This is not right. My children should not have 35 children class. Dupis said that there should not be a rat through his lunchbox … Education is not a priority for the Ford government.