“Others should try this!”

There’s the pot calling the kettle black!

Actually Wayne, its time for you to do what Mike Thomas. “Education became an addictive topic.

The more I learned, the more I understood that reform was not a plot to destroy public schools.

It was a plot to ensure that children who had long been neglected by education bureaucracies finally got a fair shake.”

Approximately, 60 percent of the students in their various SES rankings are neglected in the public education system. Outcomes and input data streams will prove that without a doubt.

Let us see, what the public education system has to say about or really the messages, since they are always to unwilling to disclosed, be transparent, and be held to account. In the United States, there is laws in place but not in Canada. Just like the little play, enacting legislation concerning BC Bill 22.

DId not check it out previously, but I pulled out Bill 22. Good news for us, but bad news for the unions and school boards. “Despite any decision of a court to the contrary made before or after the coming into force of this section, words, phrases, provisions and parts of provisions deleted, under section 8, from a collective agreement between the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation and the British Columbia Public School Employers’ Association must not for any purpose, including any suit or arbitration commenced or continued before or after the coming into force of this section, be considered part of that collective agreement on or after July 1, 2002.”
http://www.leg.bc.ca/39th4th/1st_read/gov22-1.htm

The government inserted it, to prevent the unions and school boards to dance and make gold, on the backs of students who are in need of education services in the 3 Rs beyond the classroom, but more importantly, set it up where the school board district will be picking up the costs of the anticipated settlements concerning LD students, if and when the Supreme Court releases its decision.

The unions are interpreting the clause as a legal way to prevent law suits from the public. Wrong, to prevent laws suits from the school boards and unions, who are not the public. Big differences in the messages radiating from the public education system, and what the realities really are.

On the realities, the refusal of the public education system, not acknowledging the realities and outcomes of students, remaining silent and pretending the school boards and unions are only looking out for the best interests of students.

The stakeholders within the public education system are peeved that their avenues are slowly being choke, paving the way where students will come first and their education over the collective agreements arranged between unions and their employers, the school boards.

When was the last time anyone stood up for the best interests of students inside the public education system? Oops, I forgot, when anyone does, they are fired like the physics teacher in Alberta. How about it Wayne, why don’t you view the evidence on the math curriculum, instruction practices and general policies on all sides, like Mike Thomas did?  Afraid of having your mind change or afraid of the forces within the education system, who would not think twice of firing you for questioning the very math policies and practices, that the stakeholders within dance on to promote the private agendas, interests and pocketbooks of the collective, called the public education system.

Or do you really think, that the math curriculum and the practices, are just dandy, and its all the fault of parents, students and the mysterious forces of corporatization and privatization?