#IStrikeBecause our EA’s are amazing and are overworked. We need more EA’s so that ALL of our students have a better chance at getting the education they deserve. This is not about more $.

New semester for my son with class size averages being 22.5. He has 31 students in his history class 30 in his math class 30 in his civics/careers class 33 in his science class What will an average of 25 look like? This is why OSSTF Communications is on the picket line. #NoCutsToEducation

Here's what to expect from provincial job action in the SCDSB for the week of Feb. 17-21: 🔹 All elementary and secondary schools and adult learning centres closed Friday, Feb. 21 Learn more: scdsb.on.ca/about/labour_u…

Absolutely not Stephen Lecce!!!!

PLS RT! 28,000 kids are currently on wait lists for mental health services. This is cruel & unacceptable. Investments from Government of Ontario are urgently needed. #kidscantwait Rod Phillips Christine Elliott #onpoli #onhealth cmho.org via CMHO

Minister, while you were holding a press conference and calling for unions to get back to the table, the @OSSTF bargaining team was actually at the table, with the mediator, waiting for you! Elementary Educators #onted #onpoli

The Premier’s Office announced that it will close all publicly funded schools in Ontario from March 14 to April 5, 2020, in response to COVID-19. As a result, all SCDSB schools will be closed. We will share more information as it becomes available. More: scdsb.on.ca/covid-19

In today's column, I tried to answer the question: "How much worse can the #coronavirus pandemic get?" So, for data geeks like me, I'm going to post a thread of stories and graphs with projections. theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

Canadian Yacht Tops (CYT) is a Lefroy business that has reconfigured it operations to produce face shields using the materials in making boat tops County of Simcoe Innisfil Economic Development barrie360.com/lefroys-canadi… #strongertogether

I know my children won’t be going back to an environment like this!

Starting May 11, 520 provincial parks and conservation reserves will be open for limited recreational day-use, with all Ontario Parks opening May 15. Park visitors should maintain physical distancing and other public health measures. Learn more: news.ontario.ca/m/56903

@christina_CP24 This is not only insulting to the educators delivering the #Kindergarten program, but also to the children who you obviously believe aren’t learning much. #shameful that you would think this, let alone say it to viewers. #ETFO

#NEW: As of today, the Ontario gov't has cleared the following regulated health professions to open if their associations / colleges allow #COVID19 #ONPoli

All 7 of them have masks on and are staying 2 meters apart! Let’s see what they will implement for the 30 Kindergarten kids that will be in that library in just weeks!

“Kindie kids” (4 & 5 yr olds) will not be in cohorts of 15! They will be in a cohort (a full class) of 29 kids, a teacher and a DECE minimum! Elementary Educators #onted #onpoli

Please stop saying classes are capped at 20 Stephen Lecce Kindergarten is NOT!! You are completely disregarding our youngest learners Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! 😡😡😡

Would be nice if this was understood by EVERYONE...

Here is my classroom set up for 20 students. The furthest I could get the desks apart from each other was 90cm at the most. And just a tad over 1m of space from the blackboard to the first row of desks. Not sure what I’ll do if I have more than 20 students. @maritstiles Stephen Lecce

BREAKING: Following days of internal deliberation, the Ford government has made the decision: schools in Ontario will NOT be reopening to in-person learning this month, I’ve learned. Premier Ford, Minister Lecce and Minister Elliot will make the announcement at 1 PM today.