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School District 43 continues to feel the pressure of larger classes and high numbers of students with special learning needs, resulting in increasingly complex classrooms that the Coquitlam Teachers’ Association says are getting harder to manage. CTA president Charley King was responding to the latest report from the Ministry of Education that shows numerous classes with more than seven students who have special needs and classes with seven or more students who haven’t yet mastered the English language. Both types of students require special programs, pullout classes or extra resources to help them learn.
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Anti-bullying every day in local schools: see page 10 And King says there isn’t enough. “You’re seeing students in more classes more crowded with less one-on-one time and there’s no additional resources to help students,” said King, who blamed the problem on a lack of funding from the province. “It’s actually about the system needing to keep pace with diverse learners, that’s I think what it points to,” King said. “There’s an increase to diverse learners and the system is not able to keep pace.”
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Chris Wilson is the executive director for KidSport Tri-Cities, which helps fund sports registration for children in low-income families. KidSport hosts its annual fundraising spring sale of sports equipment on March 5 in Port Coquitlam. For more, please see story on page 8.
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