Fate of extra-curriculars unknown after contract imposed
The president of the organzation behind high school sports in Windsor Essex says he expects things to return to normal when classes resume from the winter break.
Kyle Berard, president of the Windsor and Essex County Secondary School Athletic Association, or WECSSA, said teachers can return to coaching now that the province has imposed a contract.
The Liberal government used legislation Thursday to force contracts on public elementary and secondary school teachers.
Education Minister Laurel Broten announced the government would repeal that legislation once the two-year contracts are in place.
Public high school teachers have withdrawn their participation in extra-curricular activities, including coaching sports teams, since Dec. 10.
Jeff Brosseau, president of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation for district 9, said he doesn’t think anything will change now that contracts have been imposed.
“Our instructions before the holiday break was that should the minister impose a contract, we do not want the members to resume anything that they had stopped,” Brosseau said.
The imposed contracts will expire in August 2014.
