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“He’s gone backwards,” she said Nov. 2. “I really worry that with how badly he’s taken this just within the last week, that he’s going to regress further.”Her son, Carson Schofield, turns four in December. He started pre-primary at Kingston District School in September, but when Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union Local 73 went on strike on Oct. 24, classes for pre-primary learners were halted.
“I am just concerned that he’s going to continue to regress instead of progress, so that’s why we come down here so that can see first-hand who it’s affecting,” she said. “It’s having your worse fear come true,” she said. “I don’t know what to do. The only thing I know how to do is to be here and show support .”The local also includes educational assistants, student support workers, outreach workers, parent navigators, library personnel, child and youth practitioners, native student advisors, literacy support workers and student supervisors.