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What do we want the system to give to students.

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In today’s society the school has become the village that is requires to raise children. The ministry needs to acknowledge this and provide the needed resources

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The education system has the power to break the cycle so of poverty and addiction. We need to meet their needs in order to make that change happen.

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Labour policy: Migrant workers are not allowed to bring their families to settle here.

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Children are too hungry to learn.

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Ministry of education and social services need to work together.

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How do we help students to take charge of their own learning?

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Greater transience among families due to economic factors, and among teachers who find themselves in a different school each year at the start of their careers. Hard to build relationships.

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Involve the entire community. Become aware of needs in the community from a young age.

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Education workers deserve safe workplaces.

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With local schools closing, more special needs students have been placed into fewer classes resulting in more IEPs per class.

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Quality health care and quality education are the foundation of our future.

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How can we make Ontario Public Elementary Schools even better?

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How can we make Ontario Public Elementary Schools even better?

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http://www.buildingbetterschools.ca

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http://www.buildingbetterschools.ca/take_action

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One size does not fit all.

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Waste of resources - put the $ into mental health services.

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Doesn’t test my son’s passion - technology or others.

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Not a real reflection of what is happening in our schools.

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Millions of dollars spent on something that has NO effect on the future. It is like banging our heads against wall that won’t break.

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My son threw up over EQAO every day.

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It’s to the detriment of all other subjects: Arts, athletics, music, will help with the stress but we take it all out for EQAO.

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I just don’t know what we are doing with it... we give kids an IEP just so the school can compete.

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What is it actually marking? Kids don’t get their mark for ages. Teachers don’t get info in time to change how they teach. It is false information

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My oldest is in grade 6. We are teaching to the test all year.

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Government propaganda

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Useless information that is not even acted upon.

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Integration is not working as a blanket approach.

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Students unable to complete grade level work are frustrated and too frequently explode.

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Real funding that supports the real needs of students to be effective citizens.

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EAs are being assigned to up to students in a class!

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Student resources are not following them through the grades.

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We need more resources: counselers, social workers, special education specialists, behaviourists...

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Integration is not always about a student being in the same room all day. Sometimes part of the day is needed for specialized teaching, and part of the day can be in an inclusive classroom.

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School nurse, School librarian, School counsellor... #nostalgia

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Classes too large to teach individually

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Paper work is “killer” to maintain what supports our students have. Takes away from planning and teaching.

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Local students who had 1:1support now have 1:5 support.

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What is the impact of so many students with needs on the mental health of other students and of teachers?

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Constant advocacy with no results. “No money” is the mantra.

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Teachers frustrated with the inability to teach because they are consumed with managing behaviour.

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Report cards are meaningless “bafflegab”, “doublespeak”.

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Teachers, community partners, service agencies are working so hard with so little. Private services are out of reach for most people.

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If children come to school requiring toileting assistance, an EA should be providing this, not an ECE.

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The trend is no longer of students with single learning needs, but of multiple challenges, combinations of learning disabilities + behaviours + families in crisis + mental health needs.

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Why do behaviour challenges not generate support?

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EAs placed with students to support academic or developmental needs are using all of their time on behaviour issue students of other students.

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Additional supports are needed

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Suspend students who assault staff, regardless of identification.

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Remove the violent student rather than evacuating the class - common sense!

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Classroom evacuations are too common

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Prevention

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Calming down

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Police in the schools: Valoris, ABLE programs in Cornwall

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Lots of distractions: noise, movement, behaviour

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Class size makes a difference, especially when students who might not otherwise misbehave are influenced by the behaviour of others who do.

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Health and safety issues : bumping into things, keeping track of students...

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Impossible to meet the needs of all students in large classes.

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Kindergarten classes of 30+ should be reduced to under 15.

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Kindergarten students arrive with unknown needs into large classes

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Class composition in addition to Class size needs to be considered. Some students need much more attention than others.

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Class size is further complicated by split grades.

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Too many students = not enough time for personal attention

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These behaviour should have become normalized by our students. What will be the impact on their future, when they’ve beenconditioned to accept violence as a daily event?

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Increased noise level impacts the mental health of students and teachers.

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Large classes limit the activities teachers can’t do with their classes, reduces educational experiences to manageable ones.

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Lack of physical space

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Learning suffers. Tasks take longer and are less likely to be delved into deeply.

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Why is there no limit on the number of grade 4-8 children in a class?

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Bring different age groups together to raise awareness of the needs of others.

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Reach out to the community for volunteers.

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Schools are like Fort Knox.

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Problems are symptomatic of society as a whole

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Gorki said “The world is my university.” Learning takes place all the time in every place. Encourage this.

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Family projects get parents involved in their children’s education.

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Bring back in-school child and youth workers and social adjustment classes.

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Community resources in rural areas are insufficient to meet demand.

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What is the impact of so many students with needs on the mental health of other students and of teachers?

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Students need to have food and clothing.

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Students need human interaction before coming to school. It’s like the opposite of latch key kids!

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Life skills programs for kids.

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Parenting skills: educate the parents

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When kids are asked to do more than they are capable of they become frustrated and anxious. Does the curriculum meet them where they are? Is it developmentally appropriate?

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Students unable to complete grade level work are frustrated and too frequently explode.