Ontario Government (Conservative majority), 2025-29

[The Bread Guy]

Religious media's take on Ford's latest numbers

Ontario Conservatives trailing in polls for first time since 2021 - LifeSite

The recent downward trend appears to be directly connected to the Ford government's 'gravy plane' controversy.

www.lifesitenews.com

 

[Eaglelord17]

It was even better if you were a 'shop teacher'. They all came from industry and did a summer course (or maybe two) on 'how to be a teacher'. The professional academics put an end to that. How many high schools have shops now?

It's like when I took 'law enforcement' at community college. All of our profs were retired coppers. Professional academics have pretty much put an end to that. Some colleges still have some ex-coppers as part-time faculty.

Colleges and universities interestingly enough have no formal standards for this and will ‘generally’ hire competent people from the field.

The shops teacher part irks me. I would likely switch to being a shops teacher (red seal machinist, working on getting a red seal millwright ticket too, have the time and signed book, just need to formalize it all), but the year without pay is a deal breaker for me considering I make as much as a top end teacher right now.

Plus starting I would be at the bottom of the scale and likely stay close to the bottom end because I don’t have a degree, and you need those to move up the pay scale.

My 12 years of job experience with a diploma and full apprenticeship isn’t worth anywhere near a fresh out of university teacher who just got a degree and went straight into teaching. Despite the fact I can walk out of there into a 50$+ a hour job without issue.

The difficulty in becoming a shops teacher now makes me question most that do, if you’re such a good tradesperson why take the paycut?