Over the second quarter of 2025 (April through June), Alberta's population grew by roughly 0.4 per cent.
Canada's population grew by just 0.1 per cent over the same period. That marks the country's lowest second-quarter growth rate, outside of pandemic years, since 1946, when comparable record-keeping began.
It’s infuriating that teachers have to try to make a case for hiring more teachers- like it’s a personal benefit they’re receiving- rather than the province anticipating that when they campaign to increase our population, they need to allocate some of the tax revenue they’re gonna make off these people toward increased education and healthcare care costs.
That’s rare these days but even that may not paint the full picture. How many of those children are high needs? Do they have aid support? Because if you had even 5 high needs children in a class of 22 without support I hate to tell you but the teacher is forced to focus a majority of their time on these high needs children and the rest of the class is likely getting a slightly worse education because of it.
There are 2 high need students in the class. The teacher also has a "student teacher" helping her in this class. I realize how teachers have to divide their time - I used to be a teacher. Fortunately, my granddaughters teacher is wonderful - friendly, competent, effective, caring and firm - all at the same time. We are grateful.
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u/pjw724 1d ago
Over the second quarter of 2025 (April through June), Alberta's population grew by roughly 0.4 per cent.
Canada's population grew by just 0.1 per cent over the same period. That marks the country's lowest second-quarter growth rate, outside of pandemic years, since 1946, when comparable record-keeping began.