As we near the time of the year where parent-teacher interviews typically occur and report cards come home, I’d like to advise everyone as to how the job action will impact reporting of student progress.

As you may already know, the Labour Relations Board essential services order currently provides that teachers need not:

  • Participate in meetings or interviews with parents/guardians outside of instructional time, or
  • Participate in meet the teacher activities outside of instructional time, or
  • Prepare or distribute report cards, or
  • Provide any student assessment data to principals or school office staff, except Grade 12 marks required for graduation, post-secondary applications and scholarship purposes.

The NVTA has indicated that teachers will continue to focus on instruction and will continue to assess student progress. They have also confirmed that teachers may continue to communicate with parents in informal meetings, phone calls and emails to discuss student progress.

If you wish to arrange a meeting or have questions regarding your child’s progress, please contact the appropriate teacher directly.  A number of our schools have posted the staff directory to their school websites to help facilitate direct contact by e-mail. 

Although teachers need not prepare or distribute report cards during Phase 1, they are assessing and evaluating your son/daughter on a regular basis and can provide you with your child’s status in their areas of instruction. 

We understand students and parents traditionally rely on the valuable information contained in report cards. If any concern arises regarding communications between teachers and parents during the phase of job action, parents may wish to contact the NVTA office (604.988.3224) or the school principal or vice-principal. 

We will provide a separate update addressing Report Cars in the following weeks.

Updates will continue here and through your principal, and your school’s e-mail system.

Thank you for your understanding and patience as we continue to work through job action.