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Tell Minister Calandra to Cap Class Sizes!
Please use the email text below, and click here to send your email to Ontario's Minister of Education.
Subject Line:
Cap TDSB Class Sizes!
Email text:
Dear Minister Calandra,
I am calling on you and the Ministry of Education to cap Toronto District School Board (TDSB) class sizes, and put more support staff in place in the classroom.
Last March, elected TDSB Trustees passed a motion capping class sizes in TDSB schools at 32 students in Grades 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8.
In December, the provincially appointed TDSB Supervisor, Rohit Gupta, scrapped this class size cap. This has opened the door to ultra-large class sizes in these grades in our schools for the next school year.
When class sizes go up, student learning and support goes down. In overcrowded classrooms, children get less attention from their teacher. Bullying, violence, and disruptive behaviour increase.
Across Ontario, schools have been left with $6.3 billion less in funding - adjusted for inflation - than they received in 2018, to handle these ultra-large class sizes.
This is not what public education should look like. We need a class size cap and more support staff in classrooms now.
Yours sincerely,
[Your name]