Sam Hammond
As students across Toronto continued their modest little gatherings to complain that they are being short-changed, the head of the elementary teachers union was explaining why it’s all the school board’s fault there will be no report cards. “There is no clear explanation as to why school boards like Toronto, Peel and York Region can’t issue report cards as other boards are doing,” says a straight-faced Professor Hammond. “These boards may be larger but they have proportionately as many administrators within their system to handle the task of issuing report cards,” he added in a written statement Friday. Actually there is a reason. It’s money. The school boards, including the huge Toronto and District School Board, say it would cost millions to bring in the trained staff to curate all the information necessary for a proper report card. That’s the work that the teachers are paid to do. They also get paid for not doing it at Sam Hammond’s nutty job-action university. Says the prof: “All school boards have known for more than a month that (the union’s) work-to-rule action would affect the formal report card process. They have had ample time to prepare.” Right, that’s why the union decided not to supply report cards. It would have so little impact. After all, the teacher’s aren’t working to rule to disrupt anything. Welcome to Sam Hammond University
