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Canada in a nutshell. A major reason why our best and brightest are leaving and people are no longer accepting the narrative that America, China and others are the reason for our misery. Our police state is vast, unaccountable and a blight on this nation. The trickle down impact is real.
Here is a skilled, qualified teacher and another one of our cults blocks him from a position. Why? He is "overqualified". Anyone enjoy this madness of rewarding the lowest performer due to lineage?
For the past two months, Thirugnanasambanthar Thirukkumaran has been working as a volunteer teacher full-time at West Hill Collegiate Institute, waiting for his teacher's certificate to arrive.
If not for him, his Grade 11 and 12 students wouldn't have a regular chemistry teacher. Despite this, he was denied a certificate to teach by the Ontario College of Teachers (OCT) last month for not having recognized academic credentials.
"It's kind of discrimination, for me," said Thirukkumaran, who's been tutoring students for the past two decades. It's currently as his main source of income.
Thirukkumaran says he went back to school at the age of 43 to get his bachelor of education.
"[The OCT] should appreciate that and give support — instead, they push me back."
Advocates say situations like Thirukkumaran's highlight a problem in Ontario's education system that allows teacher candidates with international education to slip through the cracks, despite a teacher shortage driven by retirements and COVID-19.
Fewer than 400 early-career graduates across Ontario were out of work and available for teaching jobs in 2021, compared to the peak of the teacher surplus in 2014, when more than 7,700 were unemployed, according to OCT estimates.
Here is a skilled, qualified teacher and another one of our cults blocks him from a position. Why? He is "overqualified". Anyone enjoy this madness of rewarding the lowest performer due to lineage?
For the past two months, Thirugnanasambanthar Thirukkumaran has been working as a volunteer teacher full-time at West Hill Collegiate Institute, waiting for his teacher's certificate to arrive.
If not for him, his Grade 11 and 12 students wouldn't have a regular chemistry teacher. Despite this, he was denied a certificate to teach by the Ontario College of Teachers (OCT) last month for not having recognized academic credentials.
"It's kind of discrimination, for me," said Thirukkumaran, who's been tutoring students for the past two decades. It's currently as his main source of income.
Thirukkumaran says he went back to school at the age of 43 to get his bachelor of education.
"[The OCT] should appreciate that and give support — instead, they push me back."
Advocates say situations like Thirukkumaran's highlight a problem in Ontario's education system that allows teacher candidates with international education to slip through the cracks, despite a teacher shortage driven by retirements and COVID-19.
Fewer than 400 early-career graduates across Ontario were out of work and available for teaching jobs in 2021, compared to the peak of the teacher surplus in 2014, when more than 7,700 were unemployed, according to OCT estimates.
