JONATHAN JANSEN | Teachers’ jobs are on the line, so what now? For one, don’t despair

Harsh as it may sound, the coming teacher retrenchments do have a silver lining

12 September 2024 - 04:44

So what’s plan B? There’s a whole lot of teachers in their final year of preservice teacher education asking me that question these days. If budget cuts across provinces mean the loss of hundreds of thousand of teaching jobs, what do I do now?..

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