An interpreter at the Longueuil courthouse was stabbed in the neck Tuesday midday. The attacker was apprehended.
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Kate
People who allowed a man in NDG to work on them who practised acupuncture without proper safeguards are urged to get tested for HIV and hepatitis C.
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Kate
Bernard Drainville has announced a $300‑million tutoring plan to help students catch up following the strikes. Drainville: “the government would hire teachers, including retired and student teachers, to do the tutoring” – this government, which hasn’t been able to hire enough teachers to cover regular classes.
Nicholas
Well, they could hire them over the summer, or March break as they mention, but I agree this will be nigh impossible to implement on their stated timeframe.
dhomas
Not only is there the question of where will they find these teachers where they haven’t been able to find them before, but is that budget even realistic? $300M for 500k students comes out to about 600$/student. Let’s say a teacher-tutor’s salary is about 25$/hour; this is already pretty low for a teacher let alone a tutor. (See here for some examples of tutor prices: https://www.superprof.ca/lessons/all-tutors/montreal/) That would give each student 24 hours, or 3-4 days, of tutoring. This is if ALL the money goes to the teacher-tutors, which is unlikely as there will be some money allocated to management/bureaucracy. Plus, it’s up to the teachers to decide which students need help? This will put more strain on teachers’ workload, in addition to what happens if teachers decide more than the 500k students need help? It seems messy and not very well thought out.I’m willing to be proven wrong, though…
Meezly
Just shows how clueless and out of touch our so-called Education Minister is, along with the party who appointed him.
carswell
Magical thinking on Drainville’s part methinks.
Just like Dubé’s promised health care reform.
Blinkered by a run-government-like-a-business mentality.
Clueless and out of touch indeed.Nicholas
To be fair, you could do tutoring with 4-6 students per tutor. Using dhomas’s numbers, that’s about an hour a day per child through the end of the school year. Even with higher pay, some students will opt out, so this is doable if you find the staff.
dhomas
Fair point, Nicholas. I hadn’t considered multi-student tutoring. The number might make sense that way.
Ian
Given how the government has operated in the past regarding “emergency funding” for education it will probably be treated like professional development courses. Remote learning on Teams, up to 25 students per class, non-perm pay rate. There might be pushback from the unions but who knows.
carswell
A teacher interviewed on CBC Radio this afternoon said she expects the plan may fail because it relies heavily on teachers working overtime but, she feels, not many will want to do so because they’ll already be overwhelmed by all the work involved in getting school back up and running.
Margaret
This inept and out-of-touch government should have agreed to the teachers’ reasonable demands (especially in light of the MLA’s own 30% increase) and avoided this strike in the first place, The teachers, students and their parents have suffered for no other reason than this government’s inability to do what is best for the population.
carswell 18:19 on 2024-01-09 Permalink
How horrible. Hoping the victim survives and can resume a full and normal life.
As depicted in the Radio-Canada photo, that courthouse is a major eyesore.
H. John 10:18 on 2024-01-10 Permalink
Paul Arcand in his press review this morning referred to an article in the Journal de Montréal which lists the thousands of dangerous items taken from people at the Montreal courthouse, which unlike Longueuil does have metal detectors:
Attaque au palais de justice de Longueuil: le débat sur la sécurité dans les palais est relancé
https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2024/01/09/attaque-au-palais-de-justice-de-longueuil-le-debut-sur-la-securite-dans-les-palais-est-relance
Ian 10:32 on 2024-01-10 Permalink
I think a steel-barreled ballpoint pen would be a better stabbing weapon than a corkscrew, I wonder if they get seized too?
Kate 10:45 on 2024-01-10 Permalink
I was called to jury duty at some point before Covid, and found that getting into the Montreal courthouse was pretty much like boarding a plane.
In a way it’s a pity, as anyone should be able to walk in and watch justice being done without being challenged, but this week’s incident shows why it’s not safe.