How the Grinch Stole Education
Well, it's true that teachers are creative! That creativity doesn't stop when we're on strike. Lisa Johnson of Campbell River adapted Dr. Seuss' famous story. It's a little long, but definitely worth a read. You can read it by clicking here.
posted by Hillary at 11:22 AM
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Hehe, pretty creative indeed! Now if only she could do cartoons to go for it, I'd bind it and tell it to children at every Xmas time. Hmmm, maybe not. The cartoons with Gordo's face on the Grinch would probably scare all the children. Wouldn't want that! :)
And Josef that is an excellent point about Vince Ready which I suppose only emphasizes the point that a better bargaining method needs to be figured out (which pretty much everyone agrees upon).
Smits?
I read on the News 1130 site that the BCTF has come to the table with some concessions, but the government still won't talk.
And as far as striking in the summer, that hardly does any good. Even IF teachers go back now and still nothing is accomplished, you can't strike when no-one's working anyway.
You know, I would love to go back to work now and have a time limit or something to the bargaining. Bagain, and if nothing happens, go back out till something is resolved.
But one of the big things is that teachers want to bargain, have guarantees on these things in a contract. The government wants things like a "Learning ROundtable" and a "Teacher's Congress" which sound all very nice, but neither are binding and so provide no guarantees that anything talked about (and we all know how quickly governments talking turns into action... yeah right)will actually happen.
In a contract, things like learning conditions and salaries are guaranteed.
Not that this govenment respects negotiated contracts anyways.
More on the "Learning Roundtable" and the "Teacher's Congress" to come. I need to look into it some more and right now it's waaaay past my bedtime: I have to be on the line at 6:30am. *YAWN!*
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