Letters: Unfair to compare childish Saskatchewan MLAs with students

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Regarding the April 30 letter within the Leader-Post by Kishore Visvanathan that addresses the behaviour of our “leaders” within the Saskatchewan Legislative Assembly:

It has been a very long time in the past since I’ve taken students to witness legislative  proceedings, the place one would hope students can be educated on “parliamentary proceedings” and listen to knowledgeable and clever debates.

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However, studying Visvanathan’s letter, I take offence to likening highschool classroom pupil behaviour to the gibberish and impolite behaviour from the chamber. Never have I seen and heard this sort of speak nor have I seen such behaviours from any students in highschool lecture rooms.

Teachers work in the very best pursuits of students — no hidden private agendas. Students reply accordingly.

Then they need to return to their “parliamentary” office the place there really is, as Visvanathan wrote, “Hooting and gibbering at the slightest provocation, and bullying of the less popular kids.” These are adults There won’t ever be one other go to to a legislative session for my lessons to witness the worst of management.

Ruth Robillard, Regina

Optimism for extra speech specialists tempered

The current announcement that the University of Saskatchewan will graduate 40 grasp’s stage speech-language pathologists yearly, beginning in 2028, seems to be a promising step in direction of addressing the urgent wants of kids with communication problems in our province.

However, my optimism is tempered by a sobering actuality. Presently, Saskatchewan is grappling with a extreme scarcity of pathologist positions, with solely 120 professionals accessible to serve practically 190,000 students.

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This evident deficit underscores the vital necessity for speech pathologists to handle the advanced studying wants of kids. Despite this urgency, a mere 4 vacant pathologist positions are presently marketed on faculty division web sites.

While concerted efforts are made to fill numerous instructional roles, speech pathologist positions usually stay unfilled or are topic to finances cuts. Remarkably, present related on-line platforms present zero listings for varsity speech pathologist positions, regardless of the nominal value.

The imminent inflow of graduates from the University of Saskatchewan begs the query: Once current vacancies are stuffed, the place will subsequent cohorts go? Will these extremely educated people be compelled to search alternatives past our borders?

For greater than 4 many years, speech-language pathologists in Saskatchewan colleges have been confined to session roles, unable to present direct therapeutic interventions.

Consequently, the transformative impression that they will have on kids with autism, language problems, apraxia, stuttering, cleft palate and selective mutism stays largely unseen. While I stay hopeful that the subsequent decade will witness the creation of tons of of much-needed positions, the fact is unsure.

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My ideas are with the numerous kids who urgently require help, their futures hanging within the stability.

Cheryl Turner, Canwood
(Turner is a retired speech-language pathologist.)

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