The province’s education minister has “very little respect” for trustees, and putting five school boards under supervision has left too many families without an elected official to turn to, says the president of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario.
Karen Brown, speaking Monday afternoon at her union’s annual general meeting, said “almost one-third of all students in Ontario (are) going to school in boards without trustee representation … Parents struggling to get the appropriate special education support for their child now need to reach out to their members of provincial parliament to engage in that kind of lobbying, since trustees are not there.”