Thread: Ontario Teams in Jeopardy for 2012/2013?
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Re: Ontario Teams in Jeopardy for 2012/2013?
2013 ought to be an interesting year for the FRC community in Ontario. Some teachers will (quite rightly) tell their union to shove it, and continue FRCing regardless of the consequences (real or imagined) it might carry. Other teams may sit the year out (or become extinct), while others will turn to their mentors in industry to carry the load.

Teams whose lead mentors are not directly affiliated with their school and have a non-teacher's-union controlled place to work, such as 1114, Karthik (who works for IFIs Canadian Office), and their closed DSBN school gymnasium practice facility, shared with 2056 and the rest of NiagaraFIRST, will likely weather the storm whilst ruffling the fewest feathers with the union.

ETFO (The Elementary Teacher's Federation of Ontario) members in Simcoe county (Barrie area) started a work-to-rule effective yesterday.

OSSTF (The Ontario Secondary School Teacher's Federation) is expected to follow suit.
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