A local teacher's union president is not happy to hear the province is considering a move to increase class sizes for kindergarten and primary grades.
Ontario is looking at removing caps on class sizes and is launching consultations on the issue.
President of the local Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario Adelina Cecchin believes this is the wrong move to be making.
"Right now, we have classes that are large and teachers trying to manage these classrooms without adequate supports," she says. "Public education needs to be about an investment into the future of these students and in public education."
Cecchin says there have been high levels of success with smaller class sizes as teachers can give more individual attention to students.
"One of the things around public education around the funding formula that was first introduced back in 1998, is that we have not recovered from that funding that was taken out of the system," she says.
She says these students need to start off their education on the right foot.
"This is their first introduction into learning and into education. This sets the groundwork, it is the seeds for their future and we want to make sure we get that right."
In kindergarten, she says the average class size is up to 26 and in primary grades from Grades 1 to 3, the cap size is 20 students to one teacher.