The Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation offering no apologies to the potential of standardized math tests for grade 9 students begin cancelled next week.
As part of the job action initiated last month, high school teachers have not been preparing students for those tests.
OSSTF president Harvey Bishof says they’ve never been a fan of those tests.
“What will be happening is that students will be in class on Monday. They’ll be getting their education, getting support from education workers. They will not be negatively affected by that,” says Bishof.
Ontario’s Education Minister Stephen Lecce expressed his disappointment but also left it up to school boards to decide if those tests would go ahead or not.
Bishof is surprised by the Minister’s response.
“This government called that testing broken and failing students so why all of a sudden seems to think it’s important that it’s postponed is, well, it’s actually fairly transparent. They’re just trying to make political hay.”
The Rainy River District School Board says it’s not yet made a decision if its students will write the test next week.
The union continued its rotating one-day strikes yesterday impacted eight boards around the region.
No high schools in the Rainy River were impacted but teachers did stage an information picket after school.
