Summary Statement
The Vancouver DPAC Inclusive Education Working Group (IEWG) shares the concerns expressed in the unions’ joint press release that resource teachers are regularly being pulled from their duties to fill in for absent teachers and about the dramatic reduction in student support worker ratios this year. Resource teachers and support workers are vital to the inclusion of children with disabilities in education. Without this essential support, students with disabilities are being left behind. We call on the VSB to immediately rectify these issues and develop a plan to address shortages over the long term.
Please read the letter in full, which includes the above Summary Statement, written collectively by the DPAC Inclusive Education Working Group.
