What on earth does health and safety have to do with FSA and class size and composition?
By Jeanie McKay Okay, I know you have seen and heard every piece of data about FSAs and the effect they have on students and class curriculum interruptions. But have you ever considered the effect that this test has on your own health? Imagine that your school is one of the lowest ranked schools on the Fraser Institute pages of the newspaper. Now imagine that you are the poor Grade 4 or 7 teacher who has to take the public blame for that rank. Yes, blame. Sadly, although we know that the data is not gathered in a statistically significant manner, the Fraser Institute reports a ranking of schools across the province that implicates individual teachers who are ranked without regard for neighbourhood socio-economic issues and without regard for the passion and talent that they bring to their classrooms every day. Now again imagine that you are that teacher. This kind of personal stress most certainly does nothing for the peace of mind of teachers who are already coping with ever increasin
