When a teacher at the local elementary school urged Jim Clayton to become an emergency replacement person — some — one the principal calls to cover an absence when a supply isn’t available — he thought he was kidding around.
Clayton assumed he needed a teaching degree, but that wasn’t the case, so he applied. A jazz pianist and vocalist, he works evenings, and is happy to help at the east-end Toronto school his daughter attended, where he volunteered in the music program.
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Ana Ledo poses outside Roselands Public School near Jane and Eglinton. Ledo is concerned her three children are missing out on curriculum because certified teachers are often replaced by an emergency replacement person.