Here is an interesting post written by a local parent regarding the current teachers contract dispute. http://louisewallace.wordpress.com/2014/05/21/considering-a-walk-out-you-in/
Has anyone else considered any action?
I call on the local school district and parents to take action, especially considering they are also victims of provincial funding cutbacks. The school board is required to balance the budget, but is given less funding despite downloaded costs. I think it’s scandalous on the part of the B.C. government, who recently spent almost $600 million on a stadium roof. That’s more important than education?
How about the fact that the Christy Clark Government twice lost BC Supreme Court decisions regarding negotiations with the BCTF?
The government was found to have illegally removed class size and composition language from the teachers’ contract, then lost a second court decision that found they did not restore those rights. The government was fined $2 million dollars for that.
The court also found that the government negotiated in bad faith, trying to provoke a strike so they could legislate a contract rather than negotiate.
I believe the goal here is to de-fund the system to the point of collapse, and break the union, so they can privatize the system. The same applies to health care.
If you have any care at all for the future of our society, take note of what is happening in our schools. Visit a classroom. Talk to a teacher.
It’s time to stop supporting a government simply out of ideology. Look at what is really going on. Do we really want to see education and health run by for-profit corporations? It’s time to impose Canadian values on our governments. Speak up for students. Speak up for the future of Canada.
–Jeff Nelson
