Educational Assistants Speak Out on Violence in Ontario Schools
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Educational assistant Rebecca Avey highlights the alarming violence in Ontario schools ahead of a new union report, emphasising that such incidents are not rare.
"I was attacked with scissors; as I am blocking, I get punched in the head instead," said Rebecca Avey, an educational assistant with the Thames Valley District school board who was off work for a year recovering, on the eve of the release of a new union report about Ontario's education system.
"I would like to say that is a rarity; it is not," said Avey, president of CUPE Local 7575, which represents educational assistants (EAs) and instructional assistants with the Thames Valley board. "I don't think communities and parents know what is transpiring in their child's schools."
