tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6870458664232083246.post4187671919081659723..comments2023-09-30T05:01:23.870-07:00Comments on staffroom confidential: BC government proposal for class composition is "rationing"Tara Olivetreehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09113322614914039292noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6870458664232083246.post-57437874271542190562011-10-04T21:07:01.077-07:002011-10-04T21:07:01.077-07:00Christy Clark is negotiating through vague passage...Christy Clark is negotiating through vague passages in the Throne Speech and George Abbott is bargaining through glib top-down ministerial announcements. But Gorgeous George has shown us some money, and there's way more where that came from.<br /><br />The money pot, as Tara says, is completely inappropriate; it is designed to drive students and families out of public schools once they lose the fight for scant funds. Teachers will never accept that and neither will parents. <br /><br />The Liberals are trying to once again monetize the basic demand--that they follow the judge's rule and restore the contract. Adrian Dix and the NDP education critic Robin Austin have pointed out the government's criminality in stripping contracts and breaking their own laws, and this is great. The next step for the NDP is to come out and publicly support that the 2002 contract has to be reinstated.<br /><br />And solidarity among our parent groups and other unions may not be as hard as one might think. Apart from the amazing events at Occupy Wall Street, where people are making new connections between disputes every day, BCers appear not very convinced that teachers need to be punished. The $175m offer may sound good to people who believe that teachers are just about the money. When that money is revealed as just a pot to feed the neediest children, however, such an appalling Dickensian image is just not in BC's imagination.<br /><br />I have been told, on 30 September at 14:50, by the BCPSEA's Facebook administrator that people who "focus on specific options available at this point is premature and simply intended, in our view, to generate anxiety."<br /><br />So essentially BCPSEA's PR team is dismissing anyone who thinks a lockout was ever near the table. Are these people for real?<br /><br />I'm feeling pretty optimistic and I think this optimism needs to be expressed with our own meetings with parents and other workers about the job action. People who want to save public education and stop the cuts need to start organizing themselves.Ian Wenigerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08852363157401033608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6870458664232083246.post-42410796028684651922011-10-04T16:29:01.509-07:002011-10-04T16:29:01.509-07:00Anonymous...getting the DESIGNATION is making the ...Anonymous...getting the DESIGNATION is making the case for the need for services. That already happens. This would be like AFTER your doctor makes the case then only 10% of the referrals get service...only the WORST cases get service.<br /><br />Or if a medication came in limited supply and only the 10% of the sickest people got it, not everyone who legitimately needed it.<br /><br />Special ed funding has always been given based on an initial testing and assessment and designation by the Ministry.Tara Olivetreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09113322614914039292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6870458664232083246.post-65717719971787004962011-10-04T15:55:18.788-07:002011-10-04T15:55:18.788-07:00Oh, but that is exactly the case in health care.
I...Oh, but that is exactly the case in health care.<br />If I require a Rx that is not on the Pharmacare list, my family doctor has to make the case that I need it.<br />It's the same to see some specialists... the family doctor has to make the case.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com