A pair of letters in the Aug. 23 edition caught my eye. The high-school teacher wrote that he has two post-graduate degrees and doesn't get paid a cent for either of them - I doubt if either of them has any direct impact on his students. He says he does not get paid for supervising sports teams and clubs - everyone knows how important these are to students; extracurricular leadership should be both a criterion for hiring and a part of every high-school teacher's work load. And he refers to unpaid summers - regular contract teachers who earn upwards of $90,000 should consider two months away from work as vacation, not unpaid time.
Trustee Howard Goodman is right, though. Proposed legislation regarding how teachers are evaluated and how supply teachers are assigned seriously reduces school boards' ability to manage their systems.
Lorne RachlisFormer Director of Education, Ottawa-Carleton District School Board
