Special needs teachers want more help
Posted March 2, 2012 7:19 pm.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – While students rallied in Vancouver on Friday afternoon, special needs teachers lobbied for more help. More than 600 special education teachers gathered for a professional development conference sponsored by the Special Education Association, a provincial specialist association of the BCTF
The vice president of the association, Alison Ogden said the government’s education bill fails her students.
Ogend, a special needs teacher, said there aren’t enough staff helping out her students, and that’s something she says the government’s bill doesn’t address.
She has been on the job for more than a decade and has yet to see any improvements. “I’m being asked to do more, and more and more and more with less, really, every year.”
Ogden said when she goes back to work, she’ll have two new students, and without additional help, she doubts she’ll be able to meet their needs. “There are not enough days in the year, and hours in the day for me to be able to do that, it is an impossible job.”
