Teachers fear that the education budget cut at Upper Grand may deteriorate the quality of education.
Education budget cut may worsen the quality of education
The meeting at the Upper Grand District School Board is seriously discussing a possible education budget cut. School administrators are taking great consideration of the consequences of their decision.
Teachers, on the other hand, are letting their voices out in a rally outside of the school campus. They want the school officials to know how education budget cuts affect students, especially those with special needs in terms of attention and education quality.
According to Helena Wall, education assistant for Waverley Drive Public School:
Students of today are more challenged than before. The environment they are in is not as the same as it was in the past.
The teachers are using their voices to express the concerns of students when the budget cuts push through. Almost 30 percent of the students per school are with special needs. Cutting of the budget will force teachers to adjust with their daily time allotment to cater to these students with disabilities.
Budget for special education needs
According to Wall, students with special needs often receive the support they actually need in life at school. Budget cuts more often affect funding for education assistance and therapy funding for students with special needs.
Families coming from low-income brackets are forced to accept the reality that their child with special needs will go to a regular public school with no additional support allotted for them.
In addition, a budget cut will most likely cause mental stress to teachers that will have to work with extra students to compensate for the budget given by the government.
Teachers handling huge classes are more prone to mental health issues out of the wide variety of personalities they will be handled in class. And with the increase in class size, their salary doesn’t increase proportionally.
At the rate of how the current government is handling the situation in the education budget, teachers might resort to looking for alternative locations to practice their profession where the pay is way better, and the stress is less.
