Unlike some parents floored by the news, high school teacher Mike Wadden wasn’t shocked to learn this week that the province was still short more than 8,500 teachers, just days before heading back to class.
After nearly 15 years on the job, he says he’s become accustomed to successive Quebec governments ignoring “the elephant in the room” in regard to what he deems to be the cause of the shortage.
“It’s not salary; it’s working conditions,” said the social studies teacher at Macdonald High School in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Que.
He says some of his colleagues have thrown in the towel because of the government’s refusal
