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The TDSB said on Thursday it will have to cut 100 teaching positions and make other staff reductions to deal with enrolment, which has been dropping steadily for a number of years.
Robin Pilkey told CBC Metro Morning's Matt Galloway the TDSB expects to have 3,500 fewer students next year, a number that includes 2,500 students they lost this year.
"The health and physical education curriculum had a hit on us this year and we're not sure how many of those kids will be back in the fall," said Pilkey.
That hit was due to children being pulled from schools by parents upset with the new curriculum, which came into force in the fall of 2015 amid protest from a vocal minority of parents across the province.
"We had a drop in the fall and this was discussed often, some kids came back and some kids didn't," said Pilkey. (more...)
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