Editor:
I have been reading, as most of us have, about the latest teachers' strike.
Salaries, class sizes and class composition seem to be recurring issues from strike to strike. Teacher salaries may not be the highest but they are certainly not the lowest. There will always be arguments on what is the right class size.
The "mainstreaming" of special needs students has been happening for over 25 years. Canada's immigration boom, which has brought non-English speaking students into the classrooms, has been happening for far longer.
What did all of these striking teachers think the job "teacher" entailed when they were enrolling to begin their "education" five, 10 or 20 years ago? Maybe if they had researched their chosen profession more closely, they would have seen that over the years the issues have been the same.
Not much has changed from one strike to the next.
L. Laferte
