We are off to a great start this semester and we have completed some preliminsary diagnostic testing. Students are where they are expected to be and, in many cases, beyond. This is a credit to the feeder school French teachers at SWO, Dundas Central, Spencer Valley, Dr. John Seaton and Lee Academy.
I do need to advise you of a current situation here at the school, however. As of the beginning of the semester, the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board found itself short a number of qualified FSL (French-as-a-Second Language) teachers. As such, they have had to to outside of their supply/LTO teacher inventory to find qualified candidates. Long-term, this is great news as there will soon be a fresh batch of eager, young French teachers for the system.
The bad news, at least short term, is that we at DVSS are still short a teacher for the immediate period. I understand there has been a hiring, but human resources must do their due diligence before the teacher can start in the school. What this means for your son's/daughter's class is that I have been splitting my time between two sets of classes, spending two days with my own classes and two days with the ones that don't currently have a teacher assigned. On days I am not in either set of respective classes, there is a qualified supply teacher although not one who is necessarily FSL qualifiied.
We do apologize for this situation, but we hope to have a resolution to it once the human resources requirements are filled and the permanent classrom teacher is able to take up the post. Should you have any questions or concerns in the interim, please do not hesitate to contact either me (see the right-hand panel) or the school.
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