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TORONTO – Toronto elementary school students won’t get their end-of-year report cards.
Instead, they’ll receive a letter indicating whether or not they’re moving on to the next grade.
They join elementary students in Peel and York region who will also receive placement letters.
Parents can blame it on the ongoing dispute between teachers and the province.
Given the ongoing work-to-rule, teachers have decided to hand over marks, without comments to principals.
The province in turn, says it won’t pay for extra help to complete the report cards.
In a statement, TDSB spokesperson Ryan Bird said “the production of report cards for more than 170,000 TDSB students requires the electronic inputting of data by teachers.”
“It is not possible to issue these reports while maintaining the privacy and accuracy of student’s marks,” Bird said, due to the strike action.
The Toronto Star reports it would cost the Peel District School Board nearly $1 million to complete report cards for more than 100,000 elementary students.
Students in Niagara, Simcoe County and Trillium-Lakelands will receive their marks. It’s unclear what the school boards in Durham and Halton plan to do.
Ontario public elementary and secondary teachers, and their colleagues from the Catholic and French boards are expected to be in a strike position in September.
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