Fewer courses. Larger classes. Cuts to special education. Police back in high schools.

When the Thames Valley District school board’s roughly 83,000 students return to their classrooms this week it will potentially be a different environment following deep cuts that include the elimination of teaching positions, reduced special needs supports and 42 jobs slashed from the central board office to the tune of $4.7 million, insiders say.

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Last year the London-based school board cut hundreds of jobs amid belt-tightening as it seeks to tame a deficit that now sits at $32 million on an annual budget of roughly $1.2 billion.

Students are expected to take the brunt of the cutbacks, union leaders say.

“The truth is, students are the ones most impacted when classrooms don’t hav

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