It’s a pity when we elect in these school board trustees and they come out and say they don’t know what’s happening at the classroom level in our schools. We have teachers teaching classes they are not qualified to teach, hey it’s an extra $6,000.00 in there pocket so sure I’ll teach it (not qualified to teach anything more than P.E. but hey who’s to know?). Seriously what are the trustees doing there? Contradiction in term “trustee” (trust).

Sure they are there to oversee, but if they are not actively looking, what’s to oversee?
Screwing around with class room schedules, class sizes, educational days, professional days, seriously the schools are not being run properly as they stand, how is this going to help? We still have kids not learning, just being passed alone so the province doesn’t notice the drop in graduating students.

I watch this first hand with my own kid, trying to get through math 10, was the teacher helpful? No the teacher was too busy being full of them self, here’s the answer to the question you don’t get now lets move along. The whole class suffered failing grades because of a so called “teacher” who wasn’t qualified to teach the class in question. It’s not that the kids didn’t “get it” it was because this joker couldn’t “teach it”.

We need to keep a close eye on how and who is teaching what in our school district, this should be a notice to the trustees that we the public are watching what “they do” in the position they have been “entrusted” with. Just saying is all

“We need to keep a close eye on how and who is teaching what in our school district, this should be a notice to the trustees that we the public are watching what “they do” in the position they have been “entrusted” with. Just saying is all”

Good luck with that. I’m still waiting for Lyn Hall to email the answers to the questions posed to him at the alleged ‘public consultation’ when he oversaw the closure of 11 public schools.

Seriously, this guy would answer every question put to board with a, “we’ll email you the answer.” But 9000+ of you still voted for him. Guess all y’all saw his name in the paper so much (and here on 250news as Meisner’s good buddy) that you figured he was somewhat competent.

The best teacher I had in high school was the one who taught us two courses, trigonometry and analytic geometry. In my view he explained things very well.

At the time the total final grade came from the final examination set by the province and marked anonymously by teachers from across the province.

His method was very simple and very effective, at least as far as I am concerned and as far as most in the class were concerned. His first term exam was a killer. Out of a class of 30 or so, 2 people got between 50 and 60%. The rest got less than 50%.

So, he managed to get everyone’s attention with that. We began to realize that one does not actually get taught (which was the teacher’s job, thus the word teacher”) without also being in a receiving or learning mode. We had not been in a learning mode as I later discovered. There are two players in the program, teacher and learner. Too many people these days forget about that simple reality.

The second and last term exam saw considerable improvements. Still a tough set of exams, as I later learned, set above the standard used by the provincial examiners.

Then came the provincial exams. Virtually all the students in his class were in the top 10 percentile of the province.

In my view, today’s students are flattered too much for less than excellent performance. Everyone has to get a star and stars have become easier and easier to get.

Well said Gus

Today we are too about the political correctness, don’t make students compete against other students, that’s not fair. Guess what life’s not fair, the real world will cast you aside unless you are ready and willing to work for what you want.

It appears now that most teachers (this is gonna annoy some folks) don’t teach anymore, they have lost that passion for what they are teaching. As you pointed out Gus, your teacher only taught a few classes (target teaching) but was very good at what was being taught. Today there are so many teachers who barely know “what they are teaching” and others pick up the extra cash by teaching “outside of their knowledge or ability to teach” the class.

It’s all become too mamby pamby, too watered down. The students that aspire to goals, have there path misdirected by lousy counselors and ill informed educators. Let’s not even get into the “mentoring” aspect of education, that has almost all but died in our current system. There are too many excuses used to explain away why little Dick or Jane isn’t learning, never has it come back to the poor ability of our teachers to teach. It’s always the home situation, the economic dynamics of the family, the social or racial status that is holding them back, never is it the fault of the school administration or the teaching staff.

There was a time when a teacher challenged you to learn and understand, that challenge was rewarding when the concept was understood by the student.

“I’m still waiting for Lyn Hall to email the answers to the questions posed to him at the alleged ‘public consultation’ when he oversaw the closure of 11 public schools.”

Why is it Lyn Hall’s fault 11 schools got closed? As far as consultation, every parent wanted their local school to remain open, but that wasn’t feasible, given declining enrollment.

Posted by: JohnnyBelt on November 10 2012 5:47 PM

Why is it Lyn Hall’s fault 11 schools got closed? As far as consultation, every parent wanted their local school to remain open, but that wasn’t feasible, given declining enrollment.

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Closures weren’t his fault. Answers to our questions were, however, his responsibility. He took the cowards way out as far as I’m concerned.

Oh this is great…more schools closing once they figure out a new schedule that maximizes use of the school facilities!! No more empty schools in July and August. You might even see shifts (days and evenings) back on the table.

Posted by: Jim13135 on November 10 2012 8:42 PM
Oh this is great…more schools closing once they figure out a new schedule that maximizes use of the school facilities!! No more empty schools in July and August. You might even see shifts (days and evenings) back on the table.

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You’ve lost me here. Do you actually think that the BCTF is going to permit teachers to work in July and August? Parents and kids are the only groups who will be screwed here.

I foresee an extra 5 or so minutes being added each day so that the teachers can get yet another week’s vacation.

First day of school year!!! Pro D day!!! Schools are a joke today, its wrong to expect this generation to work 5 days a week 4 weeks a month for 12 months when schools teach them the opposite. Along with a 9 to 3 work day and early dismissal on Wednesday.

ax: “Closures weren’t his fault. Answers to our questions were, however, his responsibility. He took the cowards way out as far as I’m concerned.”

I suspect no matter what his response might have been to whatever questions or concerns you had wouldn’t have been satisfactory to you anyway.