Historic Alberta teachers' strike begins as 51,000 educators walk off the job

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There are 67 children in my son’s double size kindergarten class with two teachers. I am on the side of teachers.

Can they also fight to bring back a full day on Friday? It’s so stupid that out of school care has to specifically be obtained for one day of the week. How does that help anybody?

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lol what? why would that even be a thing. is it some weird justification on why they pay so low? ‘well you get Fridays a half day
 so 40% less pay’

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I haven’t been in Alberta for a long time so I don’t know the history, but I assume “saving money” was the reason for the weird Fridays.

It’s actually even worse for most students, but because my kid is in Kindergarten with a normal half day it’s sorta normal. When I was looking up the school hours it was half day Friday every other week with the other half of the days just being no school at all. For Kindergarten my school is doing the AM kids one week on Friday morning and the PM kids the other Friday. Just needlessly complicated.

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It depends on the school board. Here in Calgary it appears that Fridays are early days off, but in Edmonton where I took school, Thursdays were when we had the short day.

Think it also depends on Catholic or Public school board, since I remember friends of mine who were in ECSB having a different day that was shorter. Can’t remember what day it was though specifically.

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