British Columbia's Teachers to be docked 10% of their pay for striking, plus restrictions on teachin
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Watching the video pretty much describes everything in full detail.
For people who don't know, Christy Clark is the premier of British Columbia.
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Video: [url]http://www.cbc.ca/player/News/Canada/BC/ID/2459121369/[/url]
The B.C. Public School Employers' Association is threatening a partial lockout if teachers move forward with rotating strikes on Monday.
In a three-page letter sent Wednesday to the B.C. Teachers' Federation, BCPSEA's Michael Marchbank wrote the move is in response to escalating job action and what the employers are calling a "refusal to compromise."
[B]Effective Monday, teachers will be docked five per cent of their pay for participating in job action. If teachers launch the rotating strikes as planned next week, the BCPSEA says teachers' salaries will be docked 10 per cent. [/B]
The letter says the pay reductions are intended to reflect the "work not performed" by the teachers during their job actions.
[B]In addition, it says teachers must not work during lunch, recess, and not to be at schools more than 45 minutes before or after their scheduled teaching times.[/B]
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[url]http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-teachers-threatened-with-partial-lockout-1.2650374[/url]
Read the full letter [URL="http://www.bcpsea.bc.ca/documents/teacher%20bargaining/Bargaining%20Bulletin/00-MM-Letter%20to%20BCTF%20Jim%20Iker%20May%2021,%202014.pdf"]here[/URL]
It's a political shitfest, shit like this has been going on for ages. Teachers want more pay and smaller class sizes (class sizes are about 30+ people), BCPSEA whines and moans about how it's too much money so they decided to take 2 steps back by reducing teacher wages by 10%, as well as forbidding teachers to work during recess or lunchtime (ie helping a student with work). This lockout mostly affects high school students which is pretty much a level of education that you don't want to get behind in. It really impacts me because I'm graduating this year.
[quote]In addition, it says teachers must not work during lunch, recess, and not to be at schools more than 45 minutes before or after their scheduled teaching times.[/quote]
So I guess no one is gonna make up lesson plans, tests, or report cards because that is what teachers normally do when they're not in class.
Fighting with and screwing the teachers union is practically a leap-year style event in BC. It's been happening for as long as I've been aware of local and provincial politics as a thing, and presumably for at least a few decades prior.
When I was in grade 6, the way professional development days for the teachers and the stat holiday schedule worked out, the teachers were below their contractual minimum teaching days within the contract-defined school year, and this meant that the week vacation known as Spring Break didn't happen in order to make up the days. The teachers responded by saying, we have to show up to school next week, but [I]you[/I] don't; no attendance penalties, don't give a fuck, won't be teaching classes, you can do basically whatever as long as you don't break the rules. It was great, for us students. We could take field trips anywhere that was within walking distance and didn't have a fee or cost. :v:
I remember back in '05/6 the two week strike was a welcome reprieve for my grade 9 class, but absolute hell for the grade 12s.
Luckily I managed to graduate highschool with no teacher strikes in my last two years.
I'd imagine with what frequency these things happen it would be a lot easier to drop out of highschool and attend Adult Basic Education (ABE) at Capilano U since those courses are free.
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Speaking of spring break: elix, did your district fiddle with the school day so that instead of ending the day at 2:48 classes ended at 2:54? The extra six minutes a day (that was given lip service but never really enforced) meant we got two weeks of spring break instead of just one.
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While were here: WVSS represent! Suck it Sentinel.
My school district did all sorts of shit, but we never got two weeks of Spring break for a barely-longer day. We usually got out an hour early one day a week, and the early day would vary by school and sometimes by year.
When I was in grade 5, the funding for grade 6 band got shitcanned in my district. We took it like champs, saying, well, we'll have grade 7 band. Mid-Spring grade 6: Grade 7 band funding cut in the fall, no band.
And then funding was restored for next year, so we were the only ones who missed out. We had choir both years, instead.
What?
How astronomically stupid!
Our country is going to hell
[QUOTE=KennyAwsum;44882111]What?
How astronomically stupid![/QUOTE]
Our school district is one of the most astronomically corrupt, too. I remember once some school board people were surveying students on their plan during budget cuts. They were basically like "yeah we can all keep our current salaries if we cut transportation massively so on fridays there will be no busses and kids might have to change schools to ones that are very slightly closer to them". The greedy shits did it, too.
Who thought cutting buses on a friday was an acceptable idea instead of a monday?
[QUOTE=Cakebatyr;44882443]Who thought cutting buses on a friday was an acceptable idea instead of a monday?[/QUOTE]
That one kid in my grade that everyone ripped on's uncle or dad or something
Why is the BCPSEA so shit?
Didn't bctf lobby for the end of HST? Now we have a billion dollar hole and they bitch about their wages.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;44882253]Our country is going to hell[/QUOTE]
Thanks, Harper.
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