Feb. 3, 2014 Timeline of Christy Clark’s 12 years of chaos in education An entire generation of students in British Columbia have been forced to learn in larger classes with fewer educational supports because of Christy Clark’s unconstitutional attacks on …
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Hi Folks, The Court Case You might have noticed a few items in the media about a certain court ruling that is widely being seen as a win for teachers. For once the media seem to have gotten it right. …
Hi Folks, A little reminder of our General Meeting at Eagle View tomorrow at 5 p.m. We will have supper available at the meeting beginning at 4:30. I have mentioned this is a very important meeting. Glen Hansman, BCTF 1st …
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Hi Folks, The regular School Board meeting was held at the School Board office on Monday evening. As we know, Katherine McIntosh has accepted the Superintendent’s position in Coast Mountain School District. At the meeting everyone, including teachers, thanked Katherine …
Hi Folks, Happy New Year! FSA tests We know it is the New Year because grade 4 and grade 7 students are again being asked to write FSA tests. Our concerns with these tests are long standing. Among other issues, …
Hi Folks, As the year winds down there are a few bits of information and pearls of wisdom to pass along. The first of these is my very sincere wish that everyone have a great holiday. I hope everyone gets …
Greetings everyone, I would like to start by thanking Teresa Wadhams for her presentation to the School District Trustees at their Monday meeting. Teresa spoke of her attendance at the Truth and Reconciliation event in Vancouver in September. It took much strength and …
Hi Folks, This bargaining update was just send out from Jim Iker, BCTF President. If you have not already signed up to the MyBCTF portal it is quite easy to do. You can follow the links from the BCTF main …
Hi Folks, The year continues and some days it seems, ‘Geez, is it Thanksgiving already?!”, and other days it is something like, “Geez, it’s only mid October!!” And so it goes…. TTOC Orientation/ BCTF Induction We tried something a bit …
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Hi Folks, You have probably heard this morning that CUPE settled yesterday evening. They achieved 3.5% wage increase and no concessions. This is the link to the CUPE news release: http://cupe.bc.ca/news/3159 Now we will begin to see where, in fact, …