BC Teachers Gather To Name New President
Saturday, March 16, 2013 @ 4:53 AM
Prince George, B.C. – The B.C. Teachers Federation’s 97th Annual General Meeting opens in Vancouver today and runs through Tuesday.
700 delegates from across the province have gathered at the coast for the teachers’ convention which marks the swan song of President Susan Lambert, who is retiring. The election of a new executive will see first vice-president Jim Iker replacing Lambert as president, with second vice-president Glen Hansman moving into the first vice position. That second vice-president position is being contested by Teri Mooring of Quesnel and Denise Moffatt. Executive Committee elections take place Monday night.
As well the AGM’s elected delegates will elect several members at large. That will occur on Tuesday before the close of the convention.
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I thought our local Matt Pearce would have ran for the position. The BCTF is famous for whining and Matt Pearce is an expert at that!
Do they do the white smoke / black smoke thing?
Man, I saw so much white smoke here in the past week, I thought we were inventing them popes daily.
Seriously, if the BCTF would sit down and deal with the reality that they’re not special, perhaps they would be able to understand common sense.
They have a hell of a lot more education than our mayor and they don’t get anywhere near her wages. Don’t be yakin’ about things you’re very ignorant about. Teachers are worth twice what we pay them to look after your stinkin’ little spoiled brats as well as take abuse from deadbeat parents! Been there, done that!
Well said bigbore
Twice as much Big Bore really! So you want $100/hr instead of $50/hr.
You know nothing about the amount of time it takes to teach. Including parent phoning, marking papers, driving to work and back, lesson plans and extra ciricular it works out to about 12 hrs a day. So yeah; right now they are being paid for 6 hrs in the school. 50 bucks an hour is only 300 a day — piss poor for 5 or 6 years at UBC and putting in 12 hours a day. Sawmill guys make 30 an hour — no homework — no kid problems — no parent problems — thats 240 bucks a day for 8 hours of boring continuous menial tasks with no responsibility for anything. When they leave, they don’t take the job with them—
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