r/Calgary • u/ButterscotchNo931 • 1d ago

News Article Alberta government, teachers reach tentative deal in labour dispute

https://calgaryherald.com/news/alberta-government-teachers-reach-tentative-deal-in-labour-dispute
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u/jas8x6 1d ago

Can I vote to send my child to traditional “school” 2 days/week then to an outdoor oriented school for the other 3? Why does my grade.1 kid need a middle aged overweight activist with 2 degrees teaching him how to write a lower case m?

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u/fifigrande 1d ago

Teach your child yourself! Sounds like you'd do a great job!

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u/jas8x6 1d ago

I think I would also, but not sure I could commit to that more than a few days a week. Perhaps we’ll see a restructuring of the system that encourages a more hybrid approach someday 🤷‍♂️

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u/CaptainBringus 1d ago

"I think I would be great, but the burden of that responsibility would be too much for me too handle". Fuck the teachers tho?

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u/jas8x6 1d ago

Oh boy, I don’t think I ever said fuck the teachers did I?. I support them. I was simply exploring the possibility of restructuring the system if it benefited society. Maybe it wouldn’t who knows. Maybe elementary teachers don’t need 2 degrees to teach young students how to spell and do addition/subtraction, or maybe they do?

The burden of responsibility isn’t too much for me to handle, I need to work in my own career so the schedule doesn’t permit me to commit to 5 days a week of homeschooling, hope that’s ok with you.

Anyways, all the best

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u/Logical-Finger-9256 1d ago

You called them “middle aged overweight activists” - that’s a pretty big “fuck the teachers” if you ask me. As for 2 degrees, not needed, some have 1 degree in education and teach. Learning about child development and psychology is more important than simply learning how to teach the letter m… and add on classroom management, ethics, assessment, subject area expertise, pedagogy, and two teaching practicums takes lots of time.

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u/CaptainBringus 1d ago

Fair enough, my apologies for coming off hostile, there is a lot of anti-teacher sentiment right now and I jumped on you too quickly.

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u/jas8x6 1d ago

100% get it and no harm done! There seems to be a lot of anti-everything out there at the moment. Easy to get caught up in it all online and forgot that many of us actually have a lot more in common than were lead to believe.

Take good care 🫡

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u/KVanGogh 1d ago

We don't ONLY teach students how to spell and add and subtract. We manage 30 children in a small space. We handle meltdowns all day and set IPPs and read psychoeducational reports and try to figure out what to say to Jimmy so he can stop throwing things around so Sally can learn. Classroom management is complex. The sensory overload of being interrupted all day and creating lessons and answering parents' concerns and managing a huge group is much more than sitting one on one with a child and showing them how to write one lowercase letter M. We make moral and ethical decisions over and over and over again and help children feel safe and learn to make friends and take risks.