{"id":20387,"date":"2019-04-04T08:05:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T12:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=20387"},"modified":"2019-04-04T01:53:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T05:53:39","slug":"mhs-students-to-walk-out-this-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/04\/mhs-students-to-walk-out-this-afternoon\/","title":{"rendered":"MHS Students to Walk out This afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/55529812_2142298482523544_1639630252311314432_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-20388\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/55529812_2142298482523544_1639630252311314432_o-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/55529812_2142298482523544_1639630252311314432_o-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/55529812_2142298482523544_1639630252311314432_o-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/55529812_2142298482523544_1639630252311314432_o-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/55529812_2142298482523544_1639630252311314432_o-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/55529812_2142298482523544_1639630252311314432_o-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/55529812_2142298482523544_1639630252311314432_o.jpg 976w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Since his election in June 2018, Doug Ford\u2019s government has anounced a number of cuts to public education. On March 15th, the most recent cuts were announced. These include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An overall loss of $1.4 billion for public education<\/li>\n<li>Loss of $986.8 million in education jobs funding<\/li>\n<li>Loss of an estimated 18,000 Grade 4-12 teaching jobs<\/li>\n<li>27% increase to class sizes: 28-45 students<\/li>\n<li>$200 million in cuts to special education eliminating 500 support person positions<\/li>\n<li>Forcing all students to take 4 courses online to graduate high school (we would be the only school system in the world to do this)<\/li>\n<li>12.9% cut to textbook, computer and classroom supplies fund<\/li>\n<li>5.8% cut to office support staff<\/li>\n<li>These cuts will result in 1 in 4 classes being eliminated and 5,800 fewer teachers in our high schools (including 1,000 jobs cut in Toronto alone)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is also protesting other education-related action by the provincial government including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reverting the newly updated sex-ed curriculum (2015) to the one taught in 1988.<\/li>\n<li>Deprioritization of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission which halts the efforts to the decolonization of the education system in Ontario, including the incorporation of Indigenous knowledge and teachings.<\/li>\n<li>The cuts to the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP)<\/li>\n<li>Ontario Autism Program Funding Cuts which undermine the inclusion of children on the autism spectrum, in the public education system<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The students say no to the attacks on public education, and are planning a walkout this afternoon, April 4th, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The walkout in Wawa will be taking place from 1:15 pm to 2:15 pm at Michipicoten High School. This is an issue that deeply affects all students, parents, and educators in Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since his election in June 2018, Doug Ford\u2019s government has anounced a number of cuts to public education. On March 15th, the most recent cuts were announced. These include: An overall loss of $1.4 billion for public education Loss of $986.8 million in education jobs funding Loss of an estimated 18,000 Grade 4-12 teaching jobs &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-local"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-22 22:31:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20389,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20387\/revisions\/20389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}