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Next area I am going to focus on is destreaming support. In a bit of a surprise move there are deep cuts here. How you feel this cut will depend on how your board allocated the funds this year. Locally, we had destreaming support teachers. Funding for them is gone.
And I'm back, we went a little long with the art project, but it was a lot of fun. I'm going to start with some sour salary news. They are sticking to forecasting 1.25% for teachers. The arbitrator will have final say, but seeing that number in print again is demoralizing.
Taking a break now to get some art supplies to do some rice map art (my little one saw a TikTok and we're excited to try something new). Will continue the thread this evening, where we'll talk salary (not good news) and more cuts.
BUT comparing Conservative cuts to Conservative cuts, doesn't show you the full picture. Let's look at how this year's secondary classroom funding looks compared to the last Liberal funding papers. In my board, we'd have about 160 more teachers annually.
Now, for the first cut. This may not seem like much, but in a time of growing student need, cutting teachers is the wrong choice. For my local board, this funding cut means we will have about 8 fewer full-time secondary teachers in the system.
But now, they've separated this into 2 different sections of the Core funding document. How is this more efficient?
Let's look at a structural change to secondary Core funding: I used to be able to go to 1 page to calculate basic secondary school funding & figure out how many teachers we would be funded for. Here's the page for 2023-2024:
Core funding is the annual funding that school boards expect a certain level of consistency with. That expectation is why we start staffing our schools without the funding papers, but very conservatively so there's usually more teacher cuts before the papers come out.
Our school boards are funded through 2 main envelopes now (they were before too, but here they are in their new name form): Core Education Funding: $28.6 billion (last year $27.9 billion) Responsive Education Programs (REP): $402.9 million (last year $516.22 million)
First big change: they aren't called the Grants for Student Needs (GSN) anymore. The new name for school board funding: Core Education Funding Second big naming change is to the Priorities and Partnerships Funding (PPF), it is now called: Responsive Education Programs (REP)
Ontario has cut 5,000 classroom positions since 2018. Yes, cell phones are a distraction. The real problem is the underfunding of public schools. #onted #onpoli. How many positions has your school board lost? See the board-by-board breakdown below. monitormag.ca/articles/ontar…
The @OntarioNDP has given @fordnation and the Conservatives till May 6 to end the racist keffiyeh ban at Queen’s Park. Send an email to Doug Ford and his caucus to end the ban: ofl.ca/endtheban/ If Ford won’t end it, we’ll defy it. #OnLab #EndTheBan
We must resist all attempts to "politely" ethnically cleanse 🇵🇸 culture. Diminishing the kuffiyeh to a "political statement" is a blatant attack against 🇵🇸 as this same standard is not applied to other ethnic groups. Lift the ban! Wear your kuffiyeh proudly! Free Palestine! ✊
The kuffiyeh, like much about the Arab world, is politicized because it's convenient to file away Palestinian culture and tradition as "too political". It allows for easy discrimination and erasure. So-called "Canada" knows a lot about erasing cultures it deems unfit. 9/10
The kuffiyeh was universal, and for early migrants and visitors to the region, wearing kuffiyehs was a must. Not just for protection from the sun, but to fit in with the locals. This is a clear indicator that the kuffiyeh, again, is a traditional, ethnic garment. 5/10
The kuffiyeh was popularized as a symbol of resistance by Yasser Arafat after he wore it to diplomatic missions for 🇵🇸. The style in which he wore it preceded him by decades, shown by this famous image of a Nakba survivor wearing a white kuffiyeh over his head & shoulders. 4/10
Kuffiyehs, also called shemaghs, hatas or ghutrahs in other regions, are worn across the Arab world with stylistic variations. The b&w kuffiyeh is traditionally viewed as Palestinian, with other variations belonging to Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and many more. 3/10
The kuffiyeh was first and foremost a symbol of the working class. Farmers and labourers commonly wore kuffiyehs for protection from the harsh sun, as did most Arabs that traversed the Middle East and Arabian peninsula. 2/10
With Queen's Park banning the kuffiyeh in the Legislative Assembly due to it being a "political statement", we thought we'd show how it is in fact a traditional, ethnic garment. Did you know early Jewish migrants to Palestine wore kuffiyehs to fit in with Palestinians? 🧵1/10
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3K Followers 770 Following technology muppet @washingtonpost [email protected] (got a story about teens/social media/health/privacy? i want to hear. signal 513.368.3359)Ontario has cut 5,000 classroom positions since 2018. Yes, cell phones are a distraction. The real problem is the underfunding of public schools. #onted #onpoli. How many positions has your school board lost? See the board-by-board breakdown below. monitormag.ca/articles/ontar…
The @OntarioNDP has given @fordnation and the Conservatives till May 6 to end the racist keffiyeh ban at Queen’s Park. Send an email to Doug Ford and his caucus to end the ban: ofl.ca/endtheban/ If Ford won’t end it, we’ll defy it. #OnLab #EndTheBan
More context on the origins of the kuffiyeh here: middleeasteye.net/discover/pales…
@ELDV4Palestine Thanks for your post but fail to mention, it's origin being iraqi from ancient sumeria and the black is actually the original iraqi version which is still worn by the tribes men there. Additional kuffeyiah is the name in palestine as they imported them from kuffa, iraq
We must resist all attempts to "politely" ethnically cleanse 🇵🇸 culture. Diminishing the kuffiyeh to a "political statement" is a blatant attack against 🇵🇸 as this same standard is not applied to other ethnic groups. Lift the ban! Wear your kuffiyeh proudly! Free Palestine! ✊
The kuffiyeh, like much about the Arab world, is politicized because it's convenient to file away Palestinian culture and tradition as "too political". It allows for easy discrimination and erasure. So-called "Canada" knows a lot about erasing cultures it deems unfit. 9/10
And here's David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of "Israel", wearing a kuffiyeh around his neck (flanked by his eventual successor, Yitzhak Rabin). This was taken in 1949, roughly a year after the Nakba. 8/10
Here's another one with IOF soldiers wearing white kuffiyehs at one of their camps in 1958. 7/10
In this photo, 2 Ashkenazi Jewish men from the Hashomer organization, the precursor to the Haganah, are wearing white kuffiyehs while holding guns. With multiple forms of protection from the sun, why choose the kuffiyeh if not to connect with locals? 6/10
The kuffiyeh was universal, and for early migrants and visitors to the region, wearing kuffiyehs was a must. Not just for protection from the sun, but to fit in with the locals. This is a clear indicator that the kuffiyeh, again, is a traditional, ethnic garment. 5/10
The kuffiyeh was popularized as a symbol of resistance by Yasser Arafat after he wore it to diplomatic missions for 🇵🇸. The style in which he wore it preceded him by decades, shown by this famous image of a Nakba survivor wearing a white kuffiyeh over his head & shoulders. 4/10
Kuffiyehs, also called shemaghs, hatas or ghutrahs in other regions, are worn across the Arab world with stylistic variations. The b&w kuffiyeh is traditionally viewed as Palestinian, with other variations belonging to Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and many more. 3/10
The kuffiyeh was first and foremost a symbol of the working class. Farmers and labourers commonly wore kuffiyehs for protection from the harsh sun, as did most Arabs that traversed the Middle East and Arabian peninsula. 2/10
With Queen's Park banning the kuffiyeh in the Legislative Assembly due to it being a "political statement", we thought we'd show how it is in fact a traditional, ethnic garment. Did you know early Jewish migrants to Palestine wore kuffiyehs to fit in with Palestinians? 🧵1/10
When I saw the headline, I was happy to learn that Doug Ford finally realizes that Ottawa is in Ontario, but then I read the story and saw this is just another example of Ford giving a job to a failed Conservative candidate. #onpoli ottawa.ctvnews.ca/province-to-op…
Interesting that @Columbia demands suspension and punishment of students for not complying with their internal policies when Columbia itself refuses to comply with the ICJ's provisional measures on the Genocide Convention and its own internal policies on responsible investment.
ACTION ALERT: - Columbia University admin threatens MASS SUSPENSIONS and DISCIPLINARY PROBATION (until June 2025) to Gaza Solidarity Encampment participants who don’t leave by 2 PM. - Do not sign anything with administration. - Show up at NOON to protect the encampment! ❤️🔥
Last week, HUNDREDS of Starbucks workers representing 425+ union stores participated in bargaining sessions aimed at achieving a foundational framework that is intended to be the foundation of each single-store contract. The road has been a long one, but its finally happening!✊
Students at the University of Wisconsin Madison have now joined the Gaza solidarity encampment protests sweeping across the United States
There is a lot of angst these days about student protests. As a #humanrights educator, I am inspired by my students' activism. I hope that we are graduating compassionate and committed citizens. It is absolutely wrong to call for the violent suppression of student protests.
The projected total spending on CCS projects is around $241 billion globally by 2030 That money could go a long way in terms of decreasing our dependence on fossil fuels, rather than achieving 1-5% reductions on the emissions intensity of a barrel of oil....
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