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Methinks Cardy failed again at making folks Happy Happy Happy Perhaps he partakes of far too many butter tarts N'esy Pas?
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/dominic-cardy-department-of-education-1.5609330
Cardy to share details of what 2020-2021 school year will look like
The news conference will start at 11 a.m. in Fredericton
CBC News · Posted: Jun 12, 2020 10:48 AM AT
New Brunswick Education Minister Dominic Cardy gives an update on the reopening of early learning and child-care centres. 0:00
Earlier this week, the province also announced plans to redeploy 70 positions across the anglophone sector of the school system because more homeroom teachers will be needed this fall because of the pandemic.
Twenty-eight people working at the district level in literacy and 28 working in numeracy — they're known as leads — will be moved to other jobs in the system.
The province also announced 10 respect and diversity leads will be eliminated.
The changes have been criticized by education advocates but Cardy said the alternative could've meant not having enough teachers in New Brunswick schools in the fall.
During that same interview, he said he wouldn't reveal details of the plans for fall until he could provie them all at once.
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David Amos
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Methinks Cardy is gonna fail again at making folks Happy Happy Happy N'esy Pas?
David Peters
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Reply to @David Amos:
Could be that politicians and health/education officials are only happy in pleasing the big pharma lobbyists.
David Peters
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Reply to @David Peters:
-interested in pleasing big pharma lobbyists.-
Reply to @David Peters:
-interested in pleasing big pharma lobbyists.-
David Amos
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Reply to @David Peters: Follow the money
Reply to @David Peters: Follow the money
David Amos
Methinks Cardy failed again at making folks Happy Happy Happy Perhaps he partakes of far too many butter tarts N'esy Pas?
val harris
Cardy has a Vaccine for the grade 6 to grade 8 children.. This man is unreal.. Go Cardy go.. back to where your from would be great
Terry Tibbs
Reply to @val harris:
The NDP?
The NDP?
Carly Wattson
Reply to @val harris: I’ll trade for for Lecce in Ontario?
Lou Bell
Reply to @val harris: Where'd ye hear that , social media , the bible of the Libs ???
David Amos
Reply to @Lou Bell:
Methinks its common knowledge Perhaps you should go to Timmies in
Hampton and Sussex in order ask your buddies in the RCMP if what I say
is true or false N'esy Pas?
Matt Steele
Hmmm....with Dominic Cardy , one of Higgs most inept Cabinet Minister's , in charge ; what could possibly go wrong...lol When fall comes , what a mess this will be . Luckily , according to Canada wide Standardized Testing results , N.B. already has the bottom ranked education system in Canada , so the education system can't fall much further. For parents with a few bucks to spare , it is best to start looking around for a private tutor for your children if you want them to get a decent education
Lou Bell
Reply to @Matt Steele: Perhaps we should have your input ! You know , an expert !! Ha!!!
Terry Tibbs
Reply to @Matt Steele:
"Race you to the bottom" must be the new Department of Education motto.
"Race you to the bottom" must be the new Department of Education motto.
Matt Steele
Reply to @Lou Bell: ....It sounds like you must be Cardy's boy pal....tell us all your secrets...lol
Lou Bell
Reply to @Matt Steele: As expected , lotsa yah p in , and yet no clue what this is really about 1
Lou Bell
Reply to @Matt Steele: Dave has a social media fan I see ! A couple , you and Terry .
David Amos
Reply to @Lou Bell: Methinks you and Higgy's strange crew partake of far too many butter tarts N'esy Pas?
Jecht Almasy
yeah... ummm.. NO!
kids should NOT go back to school in September. The pandemic is still presently strong and there is no evidence that it will go away anytime soon. We have technology at the tip of our hands (Virtual Schooling - M365 TEAMS, ZOOM, etc...) to school from home just as parents are working from home, so should be the same for our kids. Why protect the parents by working from home but not kids? Cardi is over his head on this and this will fail. Smart parents will not bring their kids to school or daycare to expose them when they themselves are safe at home! this makes no sense!! And what about the School staff, teachers, bus drivers, are they gonna be safe around our kids? and what about other kids in contact with their parents who in turn are in contact with other workplace workers?
the new way of working from home is in full forward march.. Cardi must adapt to this new way of life or someone else will do it for him!
John Colford
Reply to @Jecht Almasy: You take your kids to Big Box stores, to Church, grocery stores, why not schools???
David Amos
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Reply to @Jecht Almasy: Gee why is it that I am not surprised by the fact you are obviously not very Happy?
Reply to @Jecht Almasy: Gee why is it that I am not surprised by the fact you are obviously not very Happy?
John Fullmer
Reply to @Jecht Almasy: Keep your kids locked up but mine are going back. You’re living in fear. Quebec students went back a month ago and all is fine. If we stuck to your belief everything would stay closed until 2022.
Patrick Blois
Reply to @Jecht Almasy: Do you think the entire workforce is working from home?
And what are the global statistics of children dying or even being infected with the virus? How about statistics on children infecting others?
The pandemic is still presently strong with one age group in a common location. Elderly people in long term care facilitates. The pandemic has never been a risk for children.
And what are the global statistics of children dying or even being infected with the virus? How about statistics on children infecting others?
The pandemic is still presently strong with one age group in a common location. Elderly people in long term care facilitates. The pandemic has never been a risk for children.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/covid-graduation-high-school-sackville-1.5606561
Missing graduation: Essential workers crossing border for work told they can't go to children's graduation
Modified grade 12 graduation ceremony won’t allow essential workers who cross the border for work
· CBC News · Posted: Jun 11, 2020 12:16 PM AT
Jennifer Loucks' daughter is graduating from Tantramar Regional High School later this month. School district rules could keep some parents who are essential workers from attending. (Tori Weldon/CBC)
A heath care worker who lives in New Brunswick and works in Nova Scotia said essential workers are being unfairly targeted after being told by her daughter's school that she won't be allowed to go to the graduation ceremony if she continues to go to work.
Jennifer Loucks' daughter Anna is graduating from Tantramar Regional High School in Sackville later this month.
Loucks said she found out last week that she can't cross the provincial border for 14 days if she wants to be at the ceremony to see her daughter graduate.
"It's been a real rough year for them anyway, and they're not experiencing things like you and I would have," she said.
"It's important to be there for her."
COVID-19 restrictions mean graduation ceremonies at the high school are happening individually. Each graduate can bring up to four people, and is asked to arrive at a set time. The graduate will cross the stage, receive their diploma and have pictures taken, then leave the school.
Loucks' daughter is graduating from Tantramar Regional High School. (Tori Weldon/CBC)
"I don't feel that I'm at risk or a risk to anyone," said Loucks, who offered to wear a mask and gloves and says there are no known active cases of COVID–19 in Cumberland County, N.S., where she works.
She applauds the school for implementing a safe experience for the graduating students, but feels there is a way to allow for parents who are essential workers.
"Sackville is a border town and there are people that are constantly going back and forth for work because that's what they have to do every day," said Loucks. "If they have a family member that's graduating next week and they really need to consider that."
The school principal sent out a screening questionnaire to parents, with one question jumping out at Loucks: Have you returned from travel outside of New Brunswick within the last 14 days?
The next day, June 5, just 14 days before her daughter's graduation ceremony, Loucks followed up with the school to ask if, as an essential worker, she'd be allowed in the building.
"Well because my daughter was smart enough to ask a question last Thursday...14 days prior to graduation I made sure I made arrangements with my work to say, 'look I'm going to work from home for the next two weeks'," said Loucks. "But I know there are people that will definitely be impacted by this that are having to go to work every day in Nova Scotia."
It's really important that we recognize that those people are still going to work and they have to go to work.- Jennifer Loucks
Dr. Jennifer Russell, the province's chief medical officer of health, said Wednesday at the regular COVID-19 briefing that especially in the case of health care workers, "if they work on one side of the border and they live on the other side of the border they are allowed to go back and forth without self isolating on a daily basis."
Dr. Jennifer Russell, the province's chief medical officer of health, said essential workers crossing the border don't have to self-isolate on a daily basis. (Ed Hunter/CBC)
Anglophone East School district, director of communications said, "As is the case with every Government building/event in the Province, all those who enter must currently answer this questionnaire honestly and act accordingly based on their answers."
But Loucks said it's putting people who have to go to work and want to see their children graduate in a difficult position.
"It's really important that we recognize that those people are still going to work and they have to go to work," said Loucks.
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David Amos
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Methinks Higgy et al knows why I will try to reach out to Jennifer Loucks as well N'esy Pas?
David Amos
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Reply to @David Amos: Nobody can say that we didn't talk Lou Bell
Sackville , like Sussex , as shown with their E.R.'s , is Special !
David Amos
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Reply to @Lou Bell: Methinks you are in fine style today Higgy must be awfully proud of his spin doctors N'esy Pas?
Mack Leigh
Once more an individual is putting their own personal feelings and supposed " needs " ahead of those of the province as a whole.....
SarahRose Werner
Reply to @Mack Leigh:
It's not even the individual's own needs. If you read further down the
story, this particular individual made arrangements to work from home
14 days before the graduation ceremony. Yet she's still complaining.
Mack Leigh
Reply to @SarahRose Werner:
It is apparent that for some no matter how many concessions are granted, no matter how many exceptions to the rules are given nothing is ever enough.. The old damned if you do and damned if you don't.
It is apparent that for some no matter how many concessions are granted, no matter how many exceptions to the rules are given nothing is ever enough.. The old damned if you do and damned if you don't.
David Amos
Reply to @Mack Leigh: Don't you???
Michael John
Reply to @Mack Leigh: we are assuming that she has covid19....if she is symptom free, she is probably fine
SarahRose Werner
What I'm seeing is that if you give people an inch, they complain that they're not getting a mile. This high school is working hard to do something more for their grads than just sending diplomas out in the mail. I hate to imagine how many hours school personnel are going to put in doing individual graduation ceremonies instead of the usual mass event. But instead of thanks, they're getting complaints.
David Amos
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Reply to @SarahRose Werner: I repeat Who made you a Queen's Counsel???
Tyson McGee
I'm under the impression all graduations are outside events. Why would she need to be screened if no one enters the building?
SarahRose Werner
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McGee: None of the graduations I've been to have been held outside? The
weather in June is still pretty variable.
David Amos
Reply to @SarahRose Werner: So?
David News
Wondering if this person that is crossing the border daily is going home to the same place where the daughter resides in NB. If she is, then why is the daughter able to attend?
Sounds a bit like bureaucratic nonsense.
As a worker in NS she would be exempt from self isolation provided she followed the rules for the exemption on the NB website. It also qualifies the exemption "All such workers and individuals who are exempt from self-isolation must travel directly to and from work and/or their accommodations, self-monitor and avoid contact with vulnerable individuals, and follow the guidance of the Chief Medical Officer of Health." Typically her daughter would not qualify as a vulnerable individual so this just doesn't make sense.
http://web1.nbed.nb.ca/sites/ASD-E/Pages/District-Contacts.aspx
Gregg Ingersoll
Superintendent of the Anglophone East School District
Stephanie Patterson
Director of Communications
Anglophone East School District
1077 St. George Blvd.,
Moncton, NB E1E 4C9
Tel: (506) 869-6004
Fax: (506) 856-3224
Email: Stephanie.patterson@nbed.nb.ca
asdeinfo@nbed.nb.ca
https://www2.ageinc.ca/GPA/coach?filters%5Bregion_id%5D=45
Jennifer Loucks
Challenging Behaviour Resource Consultant, Continuing Care
NSHA - Cumberland Regional Health Care Centre
19428 Highway 2,
RR 6 Amherst
B4H 1N6
902 667 6469
902 397 2311
Jennifer.Loucks@nshealth.ca
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/educational-assistants-anglophone-east-budget-ingersoll-1.5182786
Anglophone East School District short $2M for educational assistants
Officials searching for ways to cover 60 EA positions in the fall, says superintendent
CBC News · Posted: Jun 21, 2019 6:00 AM AT
Anglophone East Supt. Gregg Ingersoll said growth in the district over the last couple of years has outpaced the amount of funding. (CBC)
The Anglophone East School District says it doesn't have enough money to cover about 60 educational assistant positions in the upcoming school year.
The budget for educational assistants (EAs) for students with special needs at schools in the southeastern part of the province is about $2 million short.
Earlier this week, the district education council decided not to pass the budget "because they can't approve a deficit budget and I can't run a deficit budget," said Gregg Ingersoll district superintendent.
Officials are now scrambling to find the money.
"If no new resources come into the system, then we'll have to take a look at what we're doing and try to, you know, streamline some things we're doing, prioritize."
'Crucial' to inclusive system
Ingersoll said EAs are "crucial" to New Brunswick's inclusive education system, but funding hasn't kept pace with the growing need over the past couple of years.The district anticipates it will need about 472 EAs in September, he said.
That's up from about 450 this past school year and 437 the previous year.
The Department of Education and Early Childhood Development did not respond to a request from CBC News Wednesday for an interview.
In an emailed statement Thursday morning, Minister Dominic Cardy said school districts are provided with a global budget.
"It is up to them to decide how to allocate their funds."
Ingersoll said a greater number of students who require assistance are entering the school system each year than the number leaving.
We feel it's going to be challenging for us to make that up.
- Gregg Ingersoll, Anglophone East superintendentThis year, for example, 14 Grade 12 students with EAs are graduating, while 35 children with special needs are starting kindergarten.
"So that's a difference of 21 right there," he said, not including any students entering the system from out of province.
Some classrooms with about 20 students have as many as four educational assistants to ensure the students with special needs get the one-on-one attention they require and that the learning of other students isn't disrupted.
"You have to
have [educational assistants] and they do a wonderful job of supporting
the students and making everything flow," he said. "But as you can see,
the number is growing and growing and growing and as long as you have
the funding, that's one thing, but if you don't have the funding, it's
just challenging to make sure that we make it all work."
Information Morning - Moncton
The Anglophone East School District is short on cash to hire education assistants
The Anglophone East School District doesn't have enough money to hire the education assistants it needs for the coming school year. The budget is nearly two million dollars short. Gregg Ingersoll is the superintendent of the Anglophone East School District. He joined Jonna Brewer. 7:50
The district faced a funding shortfall for EAs last year too, but it was able to move money around within its global budget to cover it.
The budget for staff salaries, which is the largest line item, usually provides some flexibility, said Ingersoll.
The district also received some extra funding last September because of increased enrolment.
"So that kind of helped us out last year. And we're anticipating that's probably going to happen again this year because our forecasting for the Atlantic immigration strategy is forecasting a lot of growth for the Moncton area," he said.
This year, the gap is too big, said Ingersoll.
"We feel it's going to be challenging for us to make that up."
With files from Information Morning Moncton
David Amos
Surprise Surprise Surprise
Matt Steele
It sounds like the education system has become a BOTTOMLESS PIT in which to throw taxpayer cash . The article mentions that some classrooms of 20 students can have up to FOUR EAs , plus they have the teacher . Govt. should be providing essential services , and not be used as a MAKE WORK PROJECT . The student population has dropped heavily province wide over the last 20 years , yet the school system seems to be on a hiring blitz . Is it any wonder that the prov. debt has doubled to over 14 BILLION over the last TEN years when this type of wild out of control spending is going on......something needs to change !
Reply to @Matt
Steele: you are forgetting that the raise of special needs students has
risen. Eas are hired to help with those needs.
Reply to @Matt Steele:
You obviously don’t understand the system, so let me try to explain in
simple terms. You have a train with 2 engines up front, pulling a load
of 100 small cars which is the maximum they were designed for. You add
an extra 20 BIG, HEAVY cars to the line. The 2 engines rev up,
struggle, but are capable of pulling the load with the extra effort.
You add another 20 more cars to the line. These 20 are even BIGGER and
HEAVIER then the last 20! The 2 engines rev up more, and are still able
to pull, but the stress on the motors is obvious and definitely not
sustainable; they were not designed for that kind of load and going to
blow soon. The 2 options are to remove the extra cars (which isn’t
really an option, otherwise the cars don’t go anywhere), or add an extra
engine up front to spread the load. Those EAs are the engines.
Reply to @Reggie
Sinclair: ......or maybe the EAs sit at the back of the classroom
looking at , and texting , on their personal phones ; and do next to
NOTHING OTHER THAN TO COLLECT A PAYCHECK . Maybe it is you who does not
understand !
Reply to @Matt
Steele: BINGO. Lots of Daycare staff in the school system as EA's that
have minimal training in Mental Disabilities (man made or just
biological) and in some cases none at all.
Reply to @Matt Steele:
That is the most ignorant and unsubstantiated statement I have seen on
here in some time. Most EAs work very hard at their jobs and are greatly
appreciated by the teachers in the classrooms. If it wasn't for the EAs
a lot of classrooms would be chaos and absolutely no learning would
take place. Have you considered that the problem may be the idea of
"full inclusion". I am sure a different model could be a lot more
effective, both financially and in the terms of every student getting a
proper education. P.S. No, I am not directly involved with the school
system. just an outsider with a bit of common sense, looking in.
Reply to @al hubble:
.....If you are not directly involved in the Education system , then it
is doubtful that you have any idea what is going on in the classrooms .
If you were aware of what is going on in the classrooms , then you would
know that it is the teachers who are responsible for classroom
management and teaching ; not EAs . Many classrooms are in chaos
regardless of how many EAs are sitting at the back of the class , and
streaming caused by FI and inclusion is the problem . The teachers are
overwhelmed ; and hiring endless EAs is NOT THE SOLUTION !
Reply to @Matt
Steele: I think you’d be happy if education were perhaps be abolished
altogether? And what’s up with the “screaming” (caps) in your comments?
Reply to @Matt
Steele: If your snarky comment is indeed true, it would provide an made
to fit opportunity for you: spend all day SCREAMING at forums such as
this. Go for it.
David Amos
David Amos
Reply to @Matt Steele: "Maybe it is you who does not understand !"
Oh My My
Oh My My
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/dorchester-community-fights-to-save-school-at-packed-meeting-1.3032137
Dorchester community fights to save school at packed meeting
Parents, politicians and community members met with the DEC Monday for 4½ hours
CBC News · Posted: Apr 14, 2015 12:58 PM AT
People in Dorchester will find out on April 21 whether their kindergarten to grade 8 school is being recommended for closure. (Dept. of Education)
People in Dorchester made their case to save Dorchester Consolidated School on Monday night during a public meeting with members of the Anglophone East District Education Council that lasted more than four hours.
It is one of several schools under review in New Brunswick as the provincial government looks for ways to save money.
Mayor Jerome Bear made one of the first presentations of the evening in front of the 10-member DEC and says he felt the meeting was very positive and he believed DEC members were open to hearing suggestions.
"I put forward a proposal for a multicultural centre to be incorporated within the school itself," Bear said.
"As the evening progressed you could see a shift to nodding … nodding in agreement and realizing that the people of Dorchester came well-prepared for the meeting."
Bear says concrete suggestions were made to save the district money and to increase enrolment by changing the school catchment area.
Dorchester Consolidated currently has 66 students.
Bear says even though that number is small, the school is crucial to the greater Dorchester area and said the community needs more time to come up with a comprehensive plan to find another use for part of the school.
"The plea was made to the DEC to maintain the school so time is given to look at all this and to really incorporate the school into the village more than it already is."
The DEC will announce its recommendation for the future of Dorchester Consolidated School on April 21 in Moncton.
Bear hopes the decision will be to either maintain it or to invest in it. If the DEC recommends closure, it will then go to the education minister for a final decision, and the school could be closed at the end of the current school year.
The kindergarten to Grade 8 students would then be bused to Sackville.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/dorchester-consolidated-school-to-remain-open-1.3043216
Dorchester Consolidated School to remain open
District Education Council votes to keep town's K-8 school open
· CBC News · Posted: Apr 21, 2015 10:39 PM AT
Dorchester residents travelled in a school bus to Tuesday's meeting at Bernice MacNaughton High School in Moncton. (CBC News)
Anglophone School District East's education council voted unanimously Tuesday night to keep Dorchester Consolidated School open.
The vote was met with cheers and a round of applause from the Dorchester residents who had travelled in a school bus to Bernice MacNaughton High School in Moncton.
Parent school support committee chairperson Randy Cadman said he was ecstatic.
"It was a hard process, the community pulled together and came up with some terrific presentations," he said.
About 100 people attended the meeting. Council told parents, the school, which has 65 students, needs to see changes in the coming years.
Most council members said the short period of time allowed for the sustainability study was one factor in how they voted.
Three other New Brunswick schools have already failed sustainability assessments.
Coles Island, Pennfield Elementary and Lorne Middle School will close this spring unless the minister of education overturns the decision of the respective district education councils.
A number of other schools also face votes in the coming weeks.
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