总算是有明白人说了些明白话:这次谈判无果并不是教师薪酬问题(BCTF and the government are close in wages)。教师薪酬已经达成一致。所以大家不要一味听信媒体蛊惑去埋怨老师们贪心。
谈判无果是因为BC政府拒绝增加教育投入,导致的结果将是bigger class size越来越多的孩子在一个班级。如果班上再有几个specail needs的学生,老师就没有精力去顾及到每一个学生。老师的要求是小班授课,增加助教去关注那些有特殊需求的孩子。但这一要求又一次遭到政府的拒绝。
ANALYSIS | Class size and composition are key issues
以下一些网友的评论,大家兼听则明吧~
The BC government, having illegally prevented teachers from bargaining classroom conditions such as class size, is attacking the welfare of students and degrading the public education system which will result in poorer learning conditions for children of parents who cannot afford very high priced private education.
As a grade 11 BC student being kept out of school by this strike, I am disgusted with the liberal government. I hold them fully accountable for not bargaining in good faith. I see regularly in school how my teachers struggle to keep up with large lass sizes and kids with learning disabilities. I use the broken Physics equipment from the Science department that there is no money to replace. I watch my teachers spend their own hard earned money on their classrooms, and take extra hours after school for marking and prep that they are not paid for. Teachers rarely take their lunch break. They stay in their classrooms to help students with course work or participate in student gatherings.
I am a bright kid. I consistently top my classes. I also spend as much time as possible answering questions for my peers since a single cannot deal with a class of
30 who all need extra help at the same time.
My teachers are superstars. They deserve what they're asking for. Hold the line teachers for properly funded public education! Your students stand with you. If you support my education please support my teachers!
BCTF and the government are close in wages,(不是工资的问题) within the mandate of what other public sector unions have settled for. If further benefits are being asked for, teachers might be willing to pull them off the table if the following were offered.
The $178 million that teachers have given up in wages in job actions could go towards a one-time payment back into classrooms (i.e. increasing LIF funding and/or one-time funding to districts for maintaining support staffing such as speech-language pathologists and teacher-librarians). This could accompany a contract clause that this action would eliminate any future compensation to the BCTF regarding the 12 years of classroom grievances accumulated since 2002.
Savings from the coming days could be put back into the classrooms for maintaining/increasing support staffing for this school year. 2015 onwards the Ministry of Finance could figure out a similar plan to ICBC, increasing monthly fees/taxes by $3 per month. This could fund some of the necessary ongoing supports needed by our students.
Yesterday I bumped into a former student now entering Grade 10. He was verbal and socially able. He is severely autistic and our staff worked hard to 'find' ways to support him; often taking educational assistant time from other students just as deserving, but not as severely needy. Not the 'right' thing to do, but one example of how LIF funding does not meet the needs of all students. Every school district cuts more each year in a losing attempt to maintain student services with funding that does not keep up with the rising yearly costs. It is vital that we have planned, adequate, sustainable funding.
Call me a dreamer, but I believe that a negotiated agreement can be reached.