In a recent survey for the Anglophone East District Education Council, parents expressed a need for more classroom support and Educational Assistants.
Superintendent Gregg Ingersoll says each school needs to be examined individually when it comes to this issue.
“We get formulas, and we apply formulas to different staffing, whether it’s teachers, or educational assistants, or principals, vice principals, guidance, or resource and that sort of thing,” says Ingersoll. “So that formula might be fine for one school, but in another school, do they need more than what the formula gives them?”
“We have some flexibility in that staffing process, that we can apply that flexibility to support schools that need extra,” says Ingersoll.
Ingersoll says their comments were recorded in a survey conducted in the fall of last year.
“Their child is in the class, and there’s children in there that need something more, they want to make sure that those children get that, so that the classroom environment, whatever is taking place, is not taking away from the learning of their child, that was quite a prevalent message throughout statements,” says Ingersoll.
He says they are working with the Principals at each of their schools in an effort to get a handle on exactly what each one needs.
