TORONTO -- Ontario's public elementary teachers will be carrying their rotating strikes into a second week.

A strike on Monday by the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario will hit the Simcoe, Waterloo, Keewatin-Patricia and Penetanguishene Protestant Separate school boards.

On Wednesday, elementary teachers were on strike in the Thames Valley, Rainbow and Rainy River school boards.

Union president Sam Hammond said government negotiators haven't responded to ETFO's proposals on supports for students with special needs or addressing violence in schools.

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"Ask any ETFO educator and they will tell you that lack of supports for children with special needs, large class sizes and the violent incidents occurring in classrooms due to lack of supports for students with unique learning needs are the reasons they are willing to go on strike," Hammond said in a statement.

Education Minister Stephen Lecce has framed compensation as the sticking point in negotiations with all of the major teachers' unions, but Hammond said that has barely been discussed at the bargaining table.

Lecce said students deserve to be in class.

"Teacher union leaders broke their promise to not adversely impact student learning by withdrawing services for our kids, including EQAO math testing, extracurriculars, and report cards," he said in a statement.

Several school boards across the province announced Tuesday that first term report cards for elementary students won't be sent home. An ongoing work-to-rule campaign by elementary teachers includes not inputting marks electronically, so some boards said they weren't able to produce the report cards, including the Toronto District School Board, Peel District School Board and Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board.

All of Ontario's four major teachers' unions are engaging in some form of job action during a contentious round of contract talks, as key issues include larger class sizes and mandatory online courses.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 22, 2020.