More than one thousand teachers with
the Bluewater public school board will walk out on Wednesday December
19th. The board has issued a news release Sunday morning -- and it
states all elementary schools will be closed on Wednesday. Those
include the J-K to Grade 12 schools on the Bruce Peninsula and in
Walkerton.
I find it hard to believe that the
majority of highly educated, well paid and dedicated teachers fully
support this action but feel that they have little choice but to go along
with the 'decree' by their union who have already threatened them
with a daily fine of $500 simply for helping kids out of normal
mandated working hours. Naturally non of them will speak out as 'peer
pressure' (read union action) would in all probability make their
life very difficult if not threaten their employment.
If am am wrong in that assessment then
my respect for those that choose the teaching profession as a way to
make a living will be substantially diminished, those that truly do it
for the love of teaching and are appalled at the ever increasing
confrontational conflict over simply trying to keep our educational
system affordable to the average taxpayer have my sympathy.
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