Last week the Ford Government said that they would changing the education system by increasing class sizes from 22 to 28 students. This has gotten some very serious criticism from both students and teachers. I wouldn’t mind this if there wasn’t so many immature students that interfere with learning, but there are many disruptive people in classrooms. I would have increased the class sizes to 25 in the middle. This would save some teacher jobs and still have a lower class size which would make people happier. There is a reason that this is happening though, the debt of the province is out of control and one of the highest at 348.79 billion. There was probably a better way to get the debt under control. Either way this in my opinion was a good move but considering that these new voters in high school will be eligible to vote in the next Provincial election. This might make Ford lose lots of votes. Teachers will also be affected with about 3500 jobs being lost over the next 4 years. However, this is only about 3% of the entire teaching force of Ontario. In some cases I think that this is a smaller deal than people are making it to be. I think that this was a move that needed to be done considering the debt of the province. My argument to the students is this. In university or College, the class sizes can be 150 students listening to one teacher. So compared to this increase it will seem like nothing. As for some classes having to be E-Learning it is the way of the future and I think that it is good to educate students online so that they will know how to do that in the future. Sometimes in life you will have to teach yourself. My only concern about these education cuts is for technology classes and art classes. These could be cut and would make it more difficult for students to receive their technology credit or their art credit. I am pretty happy with the moves that Ford has made, but I would like some little details to be fixed such as art credit and keeping younger teachers instead of older teachers. Overall I do not think that if a students has a passion for their education that it will be affected in any way
