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High School Teachers Step up Job Action

Wednesday, 28 October 2015 06:38

Don't expect to see any teacher's comments on report cards from local TVDSB high schools.

Public High School teachers in the Thames Valley District School Board are going to start ramping up their job action.

While a centralized deal was reached before the school year with high school teachers, the local Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation, or OSSTF, and the school board still need to hammer out a deal.

Effective immediately teachers will no longer be doing normal report cards and will be submitting hand written marks with no comments to principals and vice principals. This means parents might not get a mid term report card this year and if they do it will only include the students marks and will not have any type of progress reports or comments on how your child is doing. Teachers will not participate in meet the teacher nights scheduled after school hours. The board has a few other job actions items, however these are the only two that parents and students would likely notice.

District President for OSSTF 11 Blair Middleton tells Heart FM what the major stumbling block in getting a deal done is:

"There are some key issues that effect us locally here - specifically they have to do with working conditions for some of our more marginalized groups of individuals in our bargaining unit, our alternate ed people who work with at risk students and our adult ed; they are called our continuing education teachers."

Middleton says they just wrapped up a 12 hour negotiating session last Friday and no progress was made. They do hope to return to the negotiating table soon.

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