Feb 21, 2020, Global News: Entire Ontario public school system closed, millions out of class Friday as teachers strike https://globalnews.ca/news/6575272/ontario-wide-teachers-strike/ Over two million Ontario students were out of class Friday as the province’s four largest education unions held a provincewide strike, resulting in a complete shut down of the public education system. Members of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO), Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (OSSTF), Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association (OECTA), and Association des enseignantes et des enseignants franco-ontariens (AEFO) all hit the picket lines, as tensions between the unions and the provincial government continued to increase…. In Toronto, thousands of educators filled the streets around Queen’s Park, though the legislature wasn’t sitting. In the lead up to the protest, the unions estimated that around 30,000 educators would attend…. “Our members are very clear. They will not compromise the level of education that our students receive every day across this province,” OECTA president Liz Stuart said. ETFO says their key issues include more funding to hire special education teachers, and guaranteeing full-day kindergarten in the future.
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Childhood Lost
Children today are noticeably different from previous generations, and the proof is in the news coverage we see every day. This site shows you what’s happening in schools around the world. Children are increasingly disabled and chronically ill, and the education system has to accommodate them. Things we've long associated with autism, like sensory issues, repetitive behaviors, anxiety and lack of social skills, are now problems affecting mainstream students. Blame is predictably placed on bad parenting (otherwise known as trauma from home).
Addressing mental health needs is as important as academics for modern educators. This is an unrecognized disaster. The stories here are about children who can’t learn or behave like children have always been expected to. What childhood has become is a chilling portent for the future of mankind.
Loss of Brain Trust features over 9,000 news stories published worldwide since January, 2017
Anne Dachel, Media editor, Age of Autism
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What will happen in another 4 years? How can we go on like this? This is a national (and international) problem of monumental proportions. We have an entire new class of children who cannot be accommodated by the system: many are manifestly neurologically impaired. Meanwhile, the government and the medical profession sleep on regardless.
John Stone,
UK media editor, Age of Autism
The generation of American children born after 1990 are arguably the sickest generation in the history of our country.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
It seemed to me that with rising autism prevalence, you’d also see rising autism costs to society, and it turns out, the costs are catastrophic.
They calculated that in 2015 autism cost the United States $268 billion and they projected that if autism continues at its current rate, we’re looking at one trillion dollars a year in autism costs by 2025, so within five years.
Toby Rogers, PhD, Political economist
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