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ON Sept. 12, 1977, the Carnegie Council on Children concluded that “The single greatest harm to children is poverty.” I believe this to be an apt description of the greatest threat to the education of a large number of children in Manitoba.
It remains worrisome that, even with the demise of Bill 64 (the Education Modernization Act), the most serious matters facing education are still off the table, and particularly so when it comes to the issue of child poverty, which presents probably the biggest challenge to any government wanting to achieve meaningful and lasting school change.
It’s the end of September. Children and young people are back at school for another year. This includes the children of the poor. The schools know who they are by now. They know they’ll have to pay special attention to these young people because they face challenges most of their other students do not.
Teachers will lie awake at night trying to think of new ways to mitigate the educational consequences for these children. They need help with this formidable task.
Cost of keeping junior(s) busy
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Winnipeg School Division to review all its schools named after people
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