I moved to Canada from the UK, AMA

[Ferdagirls]

I saw another thread that was 'i moved from US to UK AMA'. This is (kind of!) a reverse. I have lived here for 5.5 years and doubt I will ever leave.

I can answer, but it's not representative of normal schooling in Canada.

We're remote rural, with tiny schools and big funding issues. The funding model is biased against rural schools, since it's based on student head count, rather than trying to offer the same learning opportunities to all students.

There are too few teachers in rural high schools (since they don't have the $ to employ enough to cover all subjects) so, while the core subjects needed to graduate high school are all still taught face to face in the classroom, and some optional ones are too, there's an awful lot of having to take what I consider standard subjects online (e.g. gr12 physics and gr12 calculus in my ds1's final year!) which really isn't ideal at all.

You wouldn't have that issue in a city school though.

How is the work life balance in Canada? Working hours, vacation, flexibility from employers?

I was v surprised to read that Canada only mandates minimum two weeks paid vacation - is this typical?!