All over the world people are struggling to improve their personal education - and on a collective basis education is the key to a
successful Gross Domestic Product.
If you get ahead, I get ahead, we find better employment, our standard of living improves, our GDP improves - we're all better equipped to develop manufacturing, new markets, better communities.
The better our collective education, the more taxes we can pay.
Then, the better is our education system, infrastructure, health care, and on. The problem with this Liberal government is they speak lovely words, like "Bill 22 - The Education
Improvement Act", a slogan designed to imply that the goal is to try to improve the education system, while they are dismantling it. George Abbott suggests teachers discriminate against special needs students by wanting a cap on their numbers in classrooms. If every special needs child gets an extra 10 minutes, that's 10 minutes the teacher can't spend with your child. A one-size-fits-all curriculum approach pushed by Abbott means canned programs, canned tests, nothing enlightening, no extra help.
The B.C. education system is being gutted by underfunding. Being competitive on the world stage begins with a truly great education, not a phony Education Improvement Act.
This is political bunk, designed to make the public think that teachers don't care.
The Supreme Court told the Liberal government that stripping the collective rights of teachers 10 years ago was illegal. The right for your child to have time with their teacher, access to libraries and individualized lessons to fit their needs have all been stripped. That's also what teachers fight for. Our public education system is under attack.
Successful democracies prioritize education.
Jan Manning
Prince George
