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Traum · 04-09-2013, 08:57 AM

I am not intimately familiar with the BCTF situation either, but the BC Liberals have been stuffing a lot of shxt down their throats over their 3 term reign. Some of the biggest sticking points that the BCTF has been fuming about was the major reduction (or near complete elimination) of special needs teachers and class size increases. The massive reduction of special needs teachers further resulted in yet another problem -- the displacement of special needs kids into regular classes, with the most recent plans trying to stuff as many as 3 (I think?) special needs kids into a regular class.

For those who have not worked with special needs kids, you probably cannot imagine how different and how much effort is needed to work with them. Having a single ADHD or autistic kid in class can already completely change the dynamics of a class, as the kid can "disrupt" the flow of the whole class due to the amount of attention he needs / generates. Now multiply that by 3, and your whole hour or hour and a half class is spent on trying to manage interruptions and classroom discipline instead of actually teaching anything.

Furthermore, when the provincial government regularly does not respect their own class size laws, stuffing more students into classes than what the law allows, something is clearly not right. There is little surprise to see why BCTF hates the BC Liberals guts.

Oh, and we haven't even gotten to any salary discussion yet.

Another thing that really pisses me off with both Liberals and NDP is that while they will both come out saying how they need to be fiscally responsible, they have no problem fattening their own MLA / premier pay cheques. When Gordo was still premier, I remember one time when the bastard proposed to give himself some ridiculous raise, to the tune of 30 - 40%. In the same bill, MLA pay was also raised by quite a bit as well (easily 10%+, if not 15%+). Naturally, Carol James and the NDP quietly supported it as well. This was doublely insulting at the time because just a little earlier than that, the Liberals government has denied some public sector salary increase.

Suffice to say, both the Liberals and NDP are fxxking bastards.

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Traum RS.net, helping ugly ppl have sex since 2001 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Paradise, BC Posts: 8,387 Thanked 8,153 Times in 3,391 Posts Failed 262 Times in 148 Posts	I am not intimately familiar with the BCTF situation either, but the BC Liberals have been stuffing a lot of shxt down their throats over their 3 term reign. Some of the biggest sticking points that the BCTF has been fuming about was the major reduction (or near complete elimination) of special needs teachers and class size increases. The massive reduction of special needs teachers further resulted in yet another problem -- the displacement of special needs kids into regular classes, with the most recent plans trying to stuff as many as 3 (I think?) special needs kids into a regular class. For those who have not worked with special needs kids, you probably cannot imagine how different and how much effort is needed to work with them. Having a single ADHD or autistic kid in class can already completely change the dynamics of a class, as the kid can "disrupt" the flow of the whole class due to the amount of attention he needs / generates. Now multiply that by 3, and your whole hour or hour and a half class is spent on trying to manage interruptions and classroom discipline instead of actually teaching anything. Furthermore, when the provincial government regularly does not respect their own class size laws, stuffing more students into classes than what the law allows, something is clearly not right. There is little surprise to see why BCTF hates the BC Liberals guts. Oh, and we haven't even gotten to any salary discussion yet. Another thing that really pisses me off with both Liberals and NDP is that while they will both come out saying how they need to be fiscally responsible, they have no problem fattening their own MLA / premier pay cheques. When Gordo was still premier, I remember one time when the bastard proposed to give himself some ridiculous raise, to the tune of 30 - 40%. In the same bill, MLA pay was also raised by quite a bit as well (easily 10%+, if not 15%+). Naturally, Carol James and the NDP quietly supported it as well. This was doublely insulting at the time because just a little earlier than that, the Liberals government has denied some public sector salary increase. Suffice to say, both the Liberals and NDP are fxxking bastards.