Globe editorial: In Ontario, a fight over class sizes is the wrong fight GlobeDebate
Just as spring surely follows winter, when a Progressive Conservative government is elected to power in Ontario, teachers’ strikes will ensue shortly thereafter.
“We’re absolutely not going to be in a position where we’re going to give away the class-size caps that we have achieved over years of negotiations,” said Harvey Bischof, president of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation. They have aligned themselves with the Ontario Liberals and have been handsomely rewarded for their loyalty. In 2015, it came to light that, since 2008, Liberal governments had been secretly paying some of the unions’ negotiating expenses, to the tune of $3.74-million.
So the stage is set for fall strikes, or, at the very least, work-to-rule protests and heated exchanges between the government and the teachers’ unions. The Ford government wants to increase average class sizes for Grades 4 to 8 by one student, and for Grades 8 to 12 by four students. It is not changing class sizes in the critical earlier years.
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