Some said the BCTF was not serious about binding arbitration. Fassbender called it a publicity stunt, they said we weren’t serious because it wasn’t in writing. Well we called your bluff. It is for real and if you think it was a publicity stunt just say yes and prove us wrong.

Only Christy Clark could make 99.4 % of teachers agree on something.

Nothings changed. This predictable outcome is the only way out for Iker and the government isn’t going for it. Now what Iker.

The government doesnt even care about the parents either so this will bit them in the butt come election time.

Of course the teachers voted yes. What was the other option? Talk about stacking the vote question. And it’s all for nothing.

dow7501
Nothings changed. This predictable outcome is the only way out for Iker and the government isn’t going for it. Now what Iker.
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Of course it is Ikers’s only move because the Liberals are not negotiating!

Teachers put proposal at end of June, August 8th, and then informally with Ready.
Government last proposal June 16th (nearly 3 months without a proposal)

I’m surprised the results weren’t in the 110-125% range for approval by this hack union. Less than 1% voted against it? That’s a joke.
Some union flunky carrying around a ballot box with duct tape on it marked “pgss”, best photo of the day.
I guess the bctf really is broke huh?
What a joke.

Iker may have been thinking of dove soap,
99.44 percent pure the slogan went if memory is correct.
As for iker,
I thing the line from that song rings true,
“Get a hair cut and get a real job, clean your act up and don’t be a slob”
Maybe he’s dreaming of dove with the 99.4%?

Well, keep walking the line smooth. Sorry about your strike fund.

dow7501

I believe this is the second time you have mentioned me potentially hurting financially. It may have been slinky though and this may be your first. Anyways, I am doing fine thanks to a series of fortunate events. However, wishing anyone hardship financially is quite frankly sick. Many teachers are selling things, others are not enrolling their kids in activities they normally would, and many other similar stories are being shared daily on the picket lines.

It is my sincere hope that when this is done that teachers remain head held high and go back remembering it is for the kids. I hope when I deal with students I can forget the idiotic comments that many post on this site. Part of me so badly wants to go back and tell them I won’t help them in the morning, at lunch, and after school. Why should I? I am not paid for that and the employer does not respect me.

You see, I teach high school math and many students value the extra time. You see, in a class of 30 kids in a 67 minute class it is tough to get enough help. Lets say I do direct instruction for 35 minutes because it is the only way to teach that many students. This leaves me 32 minutes for students, but remember attendance takes a few minutes, giving the students on IEP’s alternate assignments takes a few minutes, settling the behaviour student takes a few minutes, after a decade of school many students are excellent at stealing the teachers attention away from others and get an inordinate amount of help. In the end, students are getting less than 1 minute of my time per class for help and to ask questions. Yes, our system is broken. Why should I keep it afloat with time stolen from my family or myself?

smooth, thanks for your contribution in teaching math to students. There are some individuals here who are like imaginary numbers whose square is negative; they live in an imaginary space. If you take their derivative, you will obtain their real value and contribution to the society. Derivative of a number is ..

Then quit smooth. Your obviously feeling underpaid and overworked. Your description of your class moves me to tears. O the inhumanity our society has dumped on your profession. I say you should be paid at least 200k for just showing up to your hell of a work environment.

Not you personally, just the BCTF in general, Can all stay out until christmas as far as I am concerned was what I wrote and still do. You have no respect for your employer, end of story. Same as the Canadian Tire fiasco when they voted for union, swearing at customers and the like out on the line and expecting these same customers to return when they were behind the counter because everything was hunky dory now – fat chance

You probably were the one who taught my daughter’s math class and told the kids how stupid they were for not understanding what you said. She excelled in home schooling, thanks very much and is now working with excel every day and loving it.

Wow Smooth, that sounds like my high school math class 30 years ago, and most of us passed! We did homework, the teacher taught and some students even used a tutor. Our teacher wrote report cards, marked tests and did prep work while we did lessons. Is a classroom really that different or is it the teachers who can’t handle it? We did have special needs students in the class (we had not heard of ADD or other assorted behaviour problems yet) and the teacher was allowed to use a ruler to keep things (students) straight. I still loved my school years, went on to higher education, and basically succeeded, so quit whining about working conditions, either go back to work or get into another field. Did you not research your chosen profession before paying for school? I did

Back in the “good old days” the classroom WAS different for several reasons: (a) special needs students, especially those with behavioural and cognitive problems, were not mainstreamed; (b) in the case of secondary school, a smaller percentage of students continued to that level, and of those who did, fewer planned to go on to university and took the classes required for university admission. Teachers today are dealing with classes that are much more diverse than they used to, which makes it more time-consuming to deal with the same number of students.