Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Last night at our constituency meeting, we had an individual present a sheet of paper, I believe he handed it to other members as well. Irvin Sumter-Freitag, he is a former educator. He has about 20 years experience. He raised a very good issue that I would like the Minister to tell me what is done in this area. Our turnover of teachers is significant in the territories. It always has been and will continue for some time, no doubt. The reasons for the turnover are, the public comments are, well, it is because no housing is available, because of VTA cutbacks and so forth. There may be some other underlying reasons such as displeasure with the way students act in classes or lack of support from the community in discipline matters, areas like that. Now what Mr. Sumter-Freitag in his sheet of paper, which he gave us, which had some good areas of comments in various areas, especially under education, pointed out; has the department thought about doing an exit report on teachers who leave the teaching profession in the Northwest Territories, either depart from the north or stay in the north but just leave the profession? I guess my two questions are: has the department ever done this? Are they doing it now and if not, would they consider doing such an exit report, so we get an idea of perhaps the real reasons teachers are moving on? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Jake Ootes on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on May 26th, 1998. See this statement in context.
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
May 25th, 1998
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