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话说公校老师罢工的事

话说公校老师罢工的事

http://www.theprovince.com/life/ ... /9937640/story.html
刚才看到有个老师给省长christy clark的公开信,提到BC政府给私利学校的funding逐年增加(上面link提到,自2005年,政府给私校的funding增加54%,同期公校的funding增加17%)。另外政府给cabinet members的工资增加了18%(不知道是几年)。

google了一下christy clark,才知道省长的儿子是上私校,难怪对私校青眼有加。当然私校也是提供教育,要不要用纳税人的钱给私校funding另当别论,但是至少应该一视同仁吧。所以老师们的诉求也似乎有正义的一面。

但是本次罢工有意思的是,新闻报道里面工会把工资要求放在首位,老师们被描绘成一群贪婪的家伙。




仔细想想,其实也不能说新闻报道有欠公允。老师的工会当然是给老师争取福利。




看完这些文章,有点disillusioned的感觉,什么是学生的best interest。不论是老师还是政府其实都不关心。

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这篇文章是前前前教育厅长写的。

BCTF has ruined the professionalism of teachers
The Province
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Page A10
By Dr. Patrick McGeer
The provincial government must cure the warfare that has been plaguing the school system in British Columbia for decades. Dealing with the current impasse in labour negotiations is only the first step. It does not solve the long-term problem.
That will require legislation declaring that education is an essential service and that strikes are no longer permitted. Then the requirement that membership in the B.C. Teachers Federation as a condition for teaching in a B.C. public school should be eliminated. That way teachers can follow their conscience and will no longer be obliged to obey their union leaders.
There is more to teaching than tutoring in reading, writing and arithmetic. Teachers need to set an example that students can look up to and admire.
The atmosphere of confrontation that pervades our school system today demeans teachers, handicaps students and undermines attitudes. How can teachers take pride in their work when their union demands they abandon their students? And how can they prepare their graduates to enter the workforce, when the attitudes toward their job and the reliability of turning up for work become paramount?
When I was B.C.'s minister of education, a strike by teachers was unthinkable, not just by the government, but by the teachers themselves. They took pride in being professionals. But if a walkout had taken place during my watch, my recommendation would have been to deal with the strikers the same way that Ronald Reagan dealt with the air traffic controllers - thank them for their service and hire replacements.
Throughout the century, teachers have been well treated in B.C. That is why so many young people are hoping to enter it as a profession. There are nine institutions in B.C. offering degrees in education. They graduate about 1,800 students each year. The numbers are swelled by a further 800 to 900 each year from outside the province, who apply for, and receive, teaching certificates.
This supply is matched against about 1,000 positions available. Well over half of all young people who wish to become teachers, and who spend years training to become teachers, will never have a chance to be one. Getting a job as a teacher in B.C. is a privilege in itself.
Education is the responsibility of the provincial government. That includes establishing the curriculum, setting the standards for its delivery and monitoring the performance of each and every school in B.C. No aspect of that responsibility should be compromised or delegated to any other body, especially to a closed-shop labour union such as the BCTF.
B.C. taxpayers, and particularly those with children in the school system, should consider whether any public interest has been served by the creation of such a union.
Fred Carrothers, the legendary law professor at the University of B.C., who made a specialty of labour negotiations, once told me, "the job of union leaders is not to obtain their fair share, but to get as much more of their fair share as is humanly possible."
This is not to condemn the process. It is only to understand that this is the job of union leaders.
Are teachers better off because of BCTF union demands? Probably not, because they will always have to remain within the framework of all government unions.
Would they have been better off remaining as professionals outside this framework? My guess is yes.
Dr. Patrick McGeer, a distinguished neurology researcher at the University of B.C. and former Olympian, served as an MLA from 1962 to 1986, the last 10 years as a cabinet minister.

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事关收入,早已捉襟见肘的政府怎么可能没有交代。政府已经申请把summer school 当成essential service,表面上说10-12年级学生需要补学分或者补考,不知道这个比例有多高。其实是为了留学生的钱吧。话说学生正常的education不算essential service。Summer school倒是essential service了。

Striking teachers may be headed to summer school
Vancouver Sun

"We need teachers to be able to provide summer school," he said.
There could be a big impact on students if summer classes are cancelled, said Strachan, because many students chose their fall classes this month on the assumption they could pick up required credits this summer if necessary.
Also caught up in the uncertainty are international students, who pay between $620 to $1,300 per summer course in Vancouver. In Surrey, the international rate is $800 for a full credit, and in Victoria it is $750.
Many international students have already purchased airline tickets and paid for home stays, and if they arrive to find B.C.'s summer schools cancelled it will hurt the province's reputation, said Bacchus.
"It's an incredibly competitive market for international students all over the world and if we have students arriving here to find they have no classes that is going to do some harm to our ability in the future to attract students."

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