Three grades in one classroom: parents fighting move by elementary school
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- Concerned parents say Kensington Community School is combining three grades into one class with one teacher. Michelle Mackey has why the TDSB says the move was made and the response from the province.
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I had classes like that in high school. It was geared towards self-study. The teacher served as your advisor. What I learned in that classroom I still use 35 years later.
Imagine self-paced, cooperative learning where older children guide and teach and younger children show curiosity and questioning 🤷
I grew up that way in Atlantic Canada. We had Grades 1 through 4 in one class and 5 through 8 in the second class. No big deal!
And you do what, now?
@@ZenCorvus After working in manufacturing for 25 years, I have retired.
Times have changed grandpa
I think this parent is overreacting, because it’s new to her. Many students have received quality education within multi-grade classrooms for years. I’ve taught in classrooms with two grades in a room. It’s amazing how much they learn from each other. Realistically, even a classroom with one grade has many different learning levels and instructional styles within the classroom. Even with just 2 children in the room, no two children are at the same level. It will be an exciting opportunity for students to learn and grow. Sometimes in hindsight all the things a parent can imagine going wrong or potential problems are unfounded and you find out that something new to you and your child was a good thing.
Not because it's new. Because she doesn't trust teachers and automatically assumes it's wrong.
This actually doesn't work imo.
Parents need to start running for these school boards and don't sell out when they get elected
Even when they don't know what they are talking about? This is a smart thing to do and will help kids.
@kathryncainmadsen5850 putting kids into the same classroom with 3 different academic levels requires the teacher to teach three different curriculums. A teacher can't provide sufficient time to adequately teach each curriculum
Stephen Lecce is a terrible education minister. He is personally responsible for the policies that have led to Ontario’s immigration issues and housing issues. Maybe unlimited foreign students as a source of revenue was a bad idea? Maybe a decade of tuition freezes during a period of rising salaries is a sure path to bankruptcy? And now he’s personally responsible for these one room schoolhouses too. Maybe he should finally allow school boards to close schools with low enrollment? How can one man cause so many problems for the province? Why can’t he just let school boards and universities run their own affairs without all his constant meddling that’s just making the whole province worse?
But he is right about this. Do facts matter?
The ‘whatabouters’ (aka parents) should leave education to the duly qualified educators.
What if the literacy rates fall 😅 is that even possible 😮
Pay for education, get a declining product..
And just a monopoly so enjoy your choice.
Some education has to be brought back into the home
That is a difficult task for even about experienced teacher.
The plural is curricula.
Multi-Grade level classes work better than single levels. Think of the one room school house. Kids behave better which saves the teacher time to work one on one and older kids help younger ones and solidify their own learning. The only thing they should fight for here are teachers trained in multi-age classes.
My first teaching assignment was a kindergarten to grade 6 class age 4 to 14 in 1970-1971 school year in outport Newfoundland. I have also raised 2 children now in their 40s. I was a very dedicated teacher. However, when my landlady requested me to do it, I went to the parents of the grade 4 & 6 students and asked them to send their students to Clarenville. They did. When I compare what I taught the grade 5 & 6 students to the education my children got, I shudder. You are only 1 person. How can you meet the needs of kids at that many levels? You can't.
They should close the school and allocate the funding to other overcrowded schools, but the education minister Stephen Lecce won’t allow the school board to close schools with low enrollment. 120 students is not enough enrollment for an entire school. Meanwhile, in condovilles like Yonge-Sheppard or Yonge-Eglinton, kids have to be bussed across town to find a school with open spaces available.
Close down, Kensington, are you serious? This school has saved my daughter’s life and so many autistic children in the community. Just stop talking!
@@ElizabethSmith-r7m I’m not from the area, but looking at a map, isn’t there another school literally a block away? Can’t all the teachers and students be moved over there?
😂 not new but why is this a priority now they went on strike for years for rise in wages but not for this seriously howvselfish is it
In Newfoundland, there is a limit on how often a student can be put into a combined class. That's why many one-room schools closed in 1984.
🙋 Life is ALWAYS more miserable under Liberal governance 😩
Ontario is under a Conservative Government. Rob Ford is the Premier .
This was caused because the Conservative education minister Stephen Lecce imposed a ban on school boards closing schools, so Toronto can't close this school that has too few students to even have a full classroom for three grades. So money is wasted to keep this empty school open while other schools in Toronto are overcrowded.
Ford is a liberal so try again
@@my2iuWill closing this school get more schools built?
@@dinkster1729 Only the local school boards know the finances for sure (and not Stephen Lecce, the micromanaging education minister), but saving money by having fewer schools should free up money that could pay for a mortgage on a new school elsewhere. School boards could also just sell the whole school and its land, and then turn it into much-needed housing, and that would definitely free up money to build a new school.