In virtually all aspects, education in Ontario is worse now than it has ever been in my close to twenty years of teaching. Ford and Lecce have expedited the damage to our system that began under previous governments (of all stripes). As Conservatives each is a disgrace.
We now have radical desteaming in the math and the sciences (a recipe for falling standards), hybrid classes (that both parents and teachers loathe), a pathalogical obsession with virtual learning, routine cancellations of exams, bouts of mark freezings, an upsurge of politically divisive politics making its way into the classroom and worst of all a deluge of grade inflation.
For those who went into education to pass on a tradition of high standards this is truly a sad and disturbing time.
Oh and if you think that all of this will change once the pandemic passes I have a bridge to sell you.
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