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THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 2002. PAGE 21.
Trustees look at ways to avoid province's demand
By Stew Slater
Special to The Citizen
The Huron-Perth Catholic District
School Board is looking at a couple
of different avenues for avoiding the
provincial government's recently-
announced demand that each school
board in Ontario submit so-called
"Teacher Performance Appraisal"
policies by this coming September.
At a regular board meeting
Monday, June 17, Stratford
representative Ron Marcy received
unanimous trustee approval for a
resolution calling on the government
to move the deadline back by one
year.
Copies of the resolution will now
be sent to Premier Ernie Eves,
Education Minister Elizabeth
Witmer, the provincial association of
Catholic school boards, and all other
school boards in the province.
Reference to the Teacher
Performance Appraisal policies was
first made in a government-
sponsored bill which received
legislative approval in late October,
2001. But that bill took in various
other issues, and specific guidelines
covering specific topics have been
trickling out ever since.
According to Director of
Education Gaetan Blanchette,
Huron-Perth administration first
learned about the government's
specific performance appraisal
guidelines in early June.
And though Blanchette
commented that the board already
has performance appraisal policies
for all employee groups, he said the
specific requirements of the newly-
announced guidelines mean all
principals in the system will have to
receive training, and then assess all
teachers at their school.
"I'll tell you right now that
(achieving this by this coming
September) is an impossibility,"
Blanchette told trustees.
Marcy's resolution highlights
several requirements of last
October's bill, called "Bill 110: An
Act to Promote Quality in the
Classroom," and suggests the
demand for such quick turn-around
makes meeting those requirements
impossible.
He pointed specifically to the
requirement that "every board shall
make information about the
performance appraisal system . . .
available to teachers employed by
the board; pupils . . . and their
parents." and noted that the Huron-
Perth , board is committed to
consulting with its stakeholders on
such matters.
"This can't be done by
September," he said.
Blanchette agreed. "If you're
going to consult, you take the time to
consult."
Board chair Mike Miller expressed
hope that sending Marcy's approved
resolution to other-school boards will
inspire them to lodge similar
complaints With the - education
ministry.
Blanchette, meanwhile, offered
hope Huron-Perth's own deadline
could be moved back based on a
technicality of last October's
legislation.
He explained that Bill 110
included an exemption for school
boards which had already approved
collective agreements with their
teachers prior to the bill's passage,
since instituting a new appraisal
system might require a reopening of
such deals.
At the time, both of Huron-Perth's
teacher unions had ratified new
three-year deals, but the board had
not yet gathered for its regular
monthly meeting (which normally
occurs on the fourth Monday of the
month), so the agreements hadn't
been officially approved by the
board.
Blyth school's Peacemakers
The members of Blyth Public School's Peacemakers group have their end of the year pizza
party at the home of teacher Cheryl Cronin. Prior to their outdoor lunch the group went for a
swim at the Vanastra pool. (David Blaney photo)
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