Know why Stephen Lecce wants us all talking about cell phones (again)?

So that we’re not talking about how harmful his latest funding formula is for our kids.

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There you go folks, piffleswipe ⁦Pierre Poilievre⁩ saying out loud he’ll use the notwithstanding clause to empty our Charter of Rights and Freedoms of all content subject to that clause*. No federal government has *ever* invoked that clause.
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I've read the #onted funding papers a few time and am ready to start my Google Sheet to compare funding from last year.

I will post highlights (lowlights?) in this thread.

#osstf #etfo #oecta #cupe #aefo

Rather than stopping the #gravytrain , Doug Ford is opening a new office and hiring his failed candidate to run it. With the most expensive premier’s office ever, it’s clear Doug Ford isn’t interested in making life better for Ontario families, just his well-connected insiders.

You have cut $35,000 from every classroom in Ontario in the last year and over 2 Billion in total? But it's vaping and cell phones that are the problem? Nobody buys this attempt to change the channel Mr Lecce

The Ontario PC Party is out in full force on this one. I know there are journalists who follow me here. I strongly encourage you to call out the fact that these “bans” are just the same policies that already existed, and distract from the funding announcements made Friday. #OntEd

This week, the Ford gov FINALLY released funding info for the 2024-2025 school yr (on a Fri afternoon). It showed that once again, #OntEd schools will be underfunded. Now they're having a big announcement on a Sunday? Seems like another exercise in PR spin & distraction. #OnPoli

Not following this new ban on cell phones in class “law”.

So teachers are supposed to act like phone cops now on top of their other duties?

This smells like another Conservative gimmick: flashy media burst about new law that is meaningless in practice.

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Did you forget that cell phones were banned in 2019 & vaping in 2017 Stephen Lecce ? What a sneaky effort to distract the public from the massive cuts to public education Doug Ford ! The goal to privatize public education in #Ontario continues unabated. Dishonesty Ontario PC Caucus

SCOOP: Insiders' text messages, obtained by TheTrillium.ca, contradict testimony that a developer who 'had his hand' in 3/15 Greenbelt removals gave the integrity commissioner about his relationship with a longtime close aide to Premier Doug Ford. thetrillium.ca/news/politics/…

Every. Single. One.
#onted

Non-disabled people: this euphemism makes me feel warm and fuzzy and nice

Disabled people: please for the love of God just utter the word disabled without flinching

Non-disabled people: BUT MY WARM AND FUZZIES

Tony Attwood often wishes autistic ppl would engage less in our 'special' interests, but evidence of course supports their benefits. It's telling he recommends that parents/carers, care workers, teachers & mental health professionals but not autistic ppl otherwise attend his talk

'You're too high functioning to...' is Ableist Code for 'If you're autistic and I can understand what you're saying, I don't want to.'

These are empty words without a plan. Has she talked to the tech companies about putting parental controls on phones? We she support hiring more administrators to help with the additional workload that comes with enforcement? Most importantly - has she talked to any teachers?

The most meaningful panels were indeed when #Autistics were ‘on stage’. Only when #AutisticResearchers , are amplified, will we begin to see equitable outcomes for #CanadianAutistics

I am a physician married to a physician who completely agrees with this. I will pay my taxes and plant trees so that those who follow me can learn under the shade of a spreading elm, and not fear the unfortunate fate of becoming ill.

Tremendously clear explanation of how much Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) junior staff (Registered Behaviour Technicians) are taught about autism, for their exams. Er, nothing. Nothing at all.
Shall we see what a well-recommended book then teaches RBTs about autism?/