Rob Shaw: All these kids are a headache for an NDP government atop education shortages

Kids are returning to B.C. schools this week in record numbers, and that’s producing record political headaches for the NDP government.

Those pressures are playing out in all sorts of ways — a shortage of schools, a shortage of teachers, a shortage of education assistants, crowded classrooms and a proliferation of portables. But then the number of kids in schools started dropping, a trend which continued until 2017. School districts spent the better part of those 17 years shutting underused facilities, consolidating schools and selling off land. Now, they are all scrambling to find locations to build new schools.

Singh said the government is trying new approaches, including building more urban schools and securing land for future schools in communities before they are developed. But instead it has charged head-long into another contentious area by choosing to end traditional letter grades for students from kindergarten to grade nine, replacing them with a “proficiency scale” of emerging, developing, proficient and extending.

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