Eye on education in B.C.

by Staff on Feb 1, 2012 at 3:38 pm
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Matt Mignanelli

Our education coverage looks at how kids have been caught in the crossfire as the B.C. teachers' strike heads into its sixth month; plus attracting foreign students, teenage mentoring, and studying female sexual desire.

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James H
Feb 2, 2012 at 1:51 pm
"how kids have been caught in the crossfire"

this comment distorts what the actual article says, please correct this so that we don't have to throw out your paper with the National Post
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RickW
Feb 2, 2012 at 4:26 pm
It's not kids caught in the so-called "crossfire". It's the parents, shaken as it were out of their complacent little boxes, making assumptions that schools are glorified baby-sitting services, instead of taking control of their lives (when they have children) by making the proper arrangments with their employers for that crucial hour (or so) from when the kids get out of school and they get out of work.

Or maybe it's because they don't know how their kids are doing without the "report card". C'mon people! COMMUNICATE with your children - and quit using teachers as some convenient scapegoat because you didn't think life through.
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Bob C
Feb 2, 2012 at 5:42 pm
Regardless of the content of your article, the cover and the tagline is so distorted you should be working for the Vancouver Sun or Province. Education for the children continues as it ever did, and the BCTF should be applauded for their even-handed approach to what is a difficult situation for educators, up to and including ensuring that Grade 12 students have all the requirements for a successful completion of their highschool education.
You are wrong if you think that education is suffering, and should be ashamed of using cheap shots to stir up controversy.
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RickW
Feb 7, 2012 at 3:57 pm
Bob C - Good on Ya!
"You are wrong if you think that education is suffering...." basically the only thing that's "suffering" are the administers' positions, as they are finding out that the system runs without them and their overpaid positions. As well, the Ministry of Education is collectively twiddling their thumbs, finding themselves irrelevant to the delivery of education in this province.
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