MLA проголосовали 43 голосами «за» к 31 «против» за принятие законопроекта № 22, акта об улучшении образования, который запрещает забастовки, принуждает учителей прекратить акции по сокращению рабочего времени и обязанностей, как это было в сентябре, и позволяет передавать спор для решения через посредников.
Срок действия законопроекта составляет шесть месяцев, начиная с субботы.
Susan Lambert, президент BCTF, не будет вдаваться в детали о том, что они могут решить сделать, с учетом ограничений, установленных 22 законодательным проектом, но говорит, что идеи уже появляются во время собраний и в выходные, во время ежегодного общего собрания, они планируют решить вопрос.
«У нас есть местные ассоциации в каждом районе, и я получаю множество писем от них, которые предлагают продолжать действия протеста или придумать какой-то новый способ».
Она говорит, что в пятницу у них состоится заседание исполнительного комитета, затем последуют дальнейшие обсуждения перед конвенцией.
«Мы полны решимости противостоять последствиям 22 законопроекта. Мы выступим против данного закона, мы намерены сохранить нашу пропаганду народного образования и студентов, которых мы обучаем».
Комментарии:
Marina - Mar 18, 2012 - 12:25 AM
Dear Helena, I agree with you with all my heart. I myself have raised a daughter who is almost 25 years old now and graduated at the top of the Law Faculty of UBC last year. I have been a teacher for 21 years but in Canada I have mostly worked in the system of private ESL schools. I have also been through the public school system, teaching Secondary Mathematics as part of my SFU Teaching practicum, and I can undersign everything you said about the immense workload on a public school teacher in BC. When my daughter was attending elementary school, I was also dissatisfied, like Ed, with the system and the approach to education. She had a teacher, who was a teacher of music in the first place, but who had to teach Mathematics and Physics and Language Skills but hardly knew anything about them. He was just a brilliant music teacher but he was required to do all of it. And he is just one of many.This is the fault of the system and not his own. But the problem with the class sizes is the real one. When you have 15 ESL students (in a class of 32 ) who can't speak enough English, how can you teach them Science and Trigonometry? Besides, you have to stay after school and create and mark the tests and call parents if their kids can't catch up. This is not a piece of cake. And during holidays and Pro-D days good teachers normally catch up with planning , marking, or studying, but there are exceptions, of course. Dear Ed, try to check out other schools and teachers. Do not let the government take away their rights to negotiate the contract. I hope people will be smart enough to find a solution.
Helena - Mar 17, 2012 - 6:05 PM
Dear Ed,
I do agree that the educational system needs some changes, but I think you are overreacting and generalizing based on your specific case. I am sure that there are some other parents, which think the same as you do due to their exeriences. I am a parent as well and, as a parent, I am not happy with some aspects of our education either. However, to understand what the teachers are fighting for, I would suggest that you find out more about the changes the government intends to make. As a teacher, I would like to say that they deprive teachers of the rights they fought for over the years and it is much more than just teachers' salary. I do not want my kid to be in a classroom of 40 students. He will be since the classroom size will not be guaranteed anymore.. I do not want my kid to be in a classroom where there are many kids with special needs, not because I am biased, but because it is more likely that the teacher will need to deal with them more than with the rest of the kids if no assistant provided. I do not want my kid to be in a classroom where the teacher will be under the pressure of being fired at any time and will be manipulated by the administration/district/government. I draw your attention, any teacher, which is not liked or seems not fit, from the employer's point of view, to teach. If you came to Canada from a dictatorship country, you probably understand what I am talking about. The whole system needs a shake up and there is no need to make teachers scapegoats. Why not to start with the government, which spent tens of millions of dollars on Roger's arena's roof instead of putting them into education, for example. If you dig deeper, you will find some other examples of the misuse of the tax payers money. As for BC teachers' earning great salaries, it is not quite the same for all teachers. The starting salary is approx. 40K (caretakers earn 40K). Many people do not know that teachers are doing many things on their own time without being paid for, some examples of which are extracurricular activities, extra help after school, tests catchup at lunches and after school as well. Marking can mainly be done after the school hours as well. The above does not happen just once, it is on the ongoing bases and a teacher is dealing with more than 200 kids on the secondary level. Moreover, among all provinces and territories in terms of teachers' salaries, BC is among those at the end, but the costs of living in BC are the ones of the highest.Yes, with the seniority (20-30-40 years of dedication), which is not any different from any other field where the seniority counts, teachers get a higher salary if they survive.. On the final note, I would invite people who are not content with their kids' education, to find out where the real matter lies. Moreover, I do not think that is fair to judge the whole teacher workforce based on one's personal encounter.
Sincerely,
Helena
Ed - Mar 16, 2012 - 10:41 PM
(продолжение) И дети с радостью играют целыми днями. А то что они ни писать, ни считать не умеют, ни стиха ни одного не выучили за год, это никого не волнует - ну училку, ни директора, ни министра образования.
Короче, народ, - кидайте банками в учителей, они моей поддержки не найдут!
Эдуард - Mar 16, 2012 - 10:39 PM
Учителя местные - работать не хотят, работают все меньше и меньше, а зарплаты все больше и больше.
В год работают 195 дней всего - остальное либо каникулы, либо про-Д дни, либо праздники. И вот за 195 дней зарплата 80-90 тысяч. Дети в школе всего 6 часов, включая перерывы и обед и игру на улице. Получается учитель зарабатывает почти $100 в час.
Но при такой огромной зарплате они же ведь нихрена не делают! Училка в классе сына раздает детям айподы - пусть дети играют, развивают навыки работы на компьютере.
MLA проголосовали 43 голосами «за» к 31 «против» за принятие законопроекта № 22, акта об улучшении образования, который запрещает забастовки, принуждает учителей прекратить акции по сокращению рабочего времени и обязанностей, как это было в сентябре, и позволяет передавать спор для решения через посредников. 
