BC Students Walk Out on Friday to Show Support for Teachers

[Toxicz]

All across schools in British Columbia, Canada, Students are walking out of there school at 2:00PM in a peaceful protest to show the BC Liberal Government that students had enough of the provincial governments bullying and blackmailing of teachers.

Bill 22 effectively strips teachers of there rights to strike, as well as posing a 1.3M Fine for everyday the BC Teachers Federation continues to strike. This is absolutely ridiculous, and a violation of our civil rights and liberties

Students are fed up with the provincial governments arrogance, and unwillingness to budge from its "NET ZERO MANDATE" imposed on all school districts.

Here are some facts:
- BC Teachers are the 9th lowest paid in Canada, yet the cost of living in BC is among the highest in the world
- BC has cut over 1,200 learning specialist teachers since 2001.
- 191 schools have closed since 2002—25 more are threatened (as of June 2010)
- There are currently 12,000 overcrowded classrooms


Well anyways, i just thought i would post about this protest, i had a lot of fun and was glad there was such a good turnout...

[Pallyofhell]

are you the asian kid in the pic?

[Toxicz]

I'm not in this pic :(

[Imperium]

that asian kid is pretty badass, not gonna lie.

Also. Teachers have nothing but respect from me, having to put up with children and teenagers like us on a daily basis, get shit pay, get shit benefits and still have to do it, and have to be good at it to keep their job.

Anyone who disrespects a teacher at school deserves to be backhanded. It's a shame. They're helping the future - we could at least give them something worth their work.

[Amgseret]

Dont forget that teachers got A LOT vocation too compared to other jobs. The benefits are kay too, at least here in 3rd reich they count as civil servants and cant be fired unless they do mayor fuck ups. (no pun intended polakboy)

Besides that they are bit like politics, no consequences for fail. Dunno, maybe its just bad experience but from all the teachers I had (around 30+), maybe 5 were really cool, motivated and showed some care and respect. Rest ranged from lolcare to total faggots and 2-3 had some real deep problems that they had to let out on class :D

No hate, but generalization is just tarded, aye.

Peace.

ps: educational system is so broken anyway

[Cube]

Dont forget that teachers got A LOT vocation too compared to other jobs. The benefits are kay too, at least here in 3rd reich they count as civil servants and cant be fired unless they do mayor fuck ups.

Either your teachers are lucky bastards, or you don't have a clue of what you're talking about.

[Imperium]

Dont forget that teachers got A LOT vocation too compared to other jobs. The benefits are kay too, at least here in 3rd reich they count as civil servants and cant be fired unless they do mayor fuck ups.

Either your teachers are lucky bastards, or you don't have a clue of what you're talking about.

[Amgseret]

Did a lil research and I was more or less right, though it changed in some federal places luckely. At least where I live the teachers get 3k+ and civil servant status or whatever the right word for it is. Not half as bad.

Overall a lot ugly political formulations and too much info, so gonna keep the trans short.

from
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamter_(Deutschland)

"Ein Bericht der OECD-Direktion Bildungswesen stellte fest: „Die gegenwärtigen Merkmale des Beamtenstatus, in dem die meisten Lehrkräfte beschäftigt werden, bringen trotz der damit verbundenen erheblichen Vorteile für die jeweiligen Personen auch gewisse Probleme mit sich. Da weitgehende Arbeitsplatzsicherheit gewährleistet wird und nur begrenzte Mechanismen zur Evaluation und Rechenschaftslegung der Lehrkräfte vorhanden sind, geben sie den Lehrkräften keine Anreize, ihre Kompetenzen ständig auf den Prüfstand zu stellen und ihre Lehrpraxis zu verbessern.“

"Because of the civil servant status, the most teachers are employed in and all the benefits coming from it, it leads to some problems too. The secured postion takes away the motivation and need for the teachers to get better."

ghetto engrish is ghetto :/

If ya dont trust my pro translation skeelz, google s there.

[Cube]

Here in Sweden the situation looks like this.

Compared to any other academic/civil career with the same level of education, teachers have lower salaries, at least up to our equivalent of high-school.

As for the vocation, I guess you mean vacation days. The majority of everyone here gets 5 weeks worth of vacation days a year. Teachers have their vacation days locked to school-holidays (so they can't plan their vacations with everyone else, like family members, as long as they don't plan their vacation days so that they correspond with the teachers), so you would think that they get a lot more vacation days a year. But if you compare a years worth of working hours, where a teacher works on average 40-50 hours a week, they get about the same vacation days as everyone else (i.e 5 weeks). On top of this the working conditions are shitty enough that most teachers can't get all their work done during the hours they get compensation for, so they have to do a lot of their work on their spare time, which they don't get paid for.

In other words, the people who study to become teachers today are stupid idealists. Feels good.

[Amgseret]

Eh, different countries, different shit I guess :S

A 40-50h week isnt anything special Id say, not everybody can have 25-30h like workers at Volkswagen this days... Shitty working condition is what a loooooot have to deal with more or less. A bit subjective too.

Id rather have a stupid idealist teacher than somebody who does it mainly for cash and other benefits. Similar shit with doctors, if you study medicine, ya gonna earn much lesser than somebody who studies something in the economic/jura direction. Fair ? Dun think so but could be worse.