Praise for our B.C. teachers
Dear Editor: Kudos to teachers. Teachers gave from the heart when they refused to give in to the government of Premier Christy Clark. Teachers paid for this decision in lawyer fees, lost income from strikes and extra work beyond the call when one in every 20 teachers was removed from the system.
Clark was the minister of education when she arbitrarily gutted freely negotiated contracts. All employees should support teachers who have established that a dictatorial employer cannot unilaterally cut provisions of a collective agreement. Imagine if one in every 20 of your workforce were removed and at the same time you were expected to accomplish the same or better in your delivery.
Students, parents, school boards, administrators and all employed in this province should applaud the efforts of teachers to fight for the learning conditions of students. This decision by the highest court in Canada guarantees the rights of employees to protection in collective agreements. If teachers had not taken on this 14-year struggle of financial hardship, then who would have?
Thank you to the teachers who stood up for the learning conditions of students and the rights of all employees in British Columbia for protection under freely negotiated contracts. Gary Robertson,
past -president Greater Victoria Teachers’ Association your children at a young age actually increases the chance of developing dangerous allergies by a whopping 80 per cent. Wow!
So, in the last two decades, sloppy science has endangered our children, giving millions of kids a dangerous nut allergy and turned school cafeterias into high-stakes war zones. It has affected millions of children for decades and served nutritional challenges for parents already run thin with modern-day parenting.
Modern science is proving no match for common sense and maternal instinct. One year milk is bad. The next year it is good. The heavy winds of science, however well meaning, truly have the power to blow us backwards. Parents in the new world of information overload might find themselves looking inward, not outward for answers. Brian Hamilton Thunder Bay, Ont.