Teachers to be bribed with signing bonus.

[BornRuff]

Some of them, many of them should be paid more. What they need to do before any spending adjustments are made is to bring in an efficiency expert to take a look at the whole system, identify the waste, identify which teachers and other workers in the system are an asset and which ones are a liability and make the necessary adjustments. Sadly some teachers are under the allusion they have a job for life- that is just not a reality. They have to be in demand.

Governments do this all the time. They pay hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars to a consulting firm, get a nice report, and then nothing changes.

The fact is that sweeping changes like that are a lot easier said than done. The changes you are talking about have nothing to do with a report, it would require breaking the union.

How many hours of instruction are B.C. Students getting in a year ?

I don't know. Do you think he is really looking for a number or is he trying to make a point that he doesn't think they work enough hours to deserve their pay?

 

[Spade]

Gentle posters - lamentations!
The fault does not lie at the desks of toiling teachers, but with a change in culture, technology, expectations, and epistemology.
When we were tads, on the Prairies or beyond, students were Skinner's pigeons - taught by rote, by example, and by the tedium of practice.Today, learning theorists are constructivists. Teaching practice is being moulded...
Search, gentle posters, search.

 

[Goober]

Update
B.C. teachers face wage cut if contract not signed by end of June - The Globe and Mail
The B.C. Liberals are threatening to cut teachers’ wages by five per cent and offering a $1,200 bonus to each teacher in a bid to pressure the union into signing a new deal by the end of the school year.

Peter Cameron, the government’s chief negotiator, says the wage rollback could go up to 10 per cent if teachers ramp up their job action.

 

[taxslave]

Update
B.C. teachers face wage cut if contract not signed by end of June - The Globe and Mail
The B.C. Liberals are threatening to cut teachers’ wages by five per cent and offering a $1,200 bonus to each teacher in a bid to pressure the union into signing a new deal by the end of the school year.

Peter Cameron, the government’s chief negotiator, says the wage rollback could go up to 10 per cent if teachers ramp up their job action.

Now that is good negotiating.

 

[JLM]

Update
B.C. teachers face wage cut if contract not signed by end of June - The Globe and Mail
The B.C. Liberals are threatening to cut teachers’ wages by five per cent and offering a $1,200 bonus to each teacher in a bid to pressure the union into signing a new deal by the end of the school year.

Peter Cameron, the government’s chief negotiator, says the wage rollback could go up to 10 per cent if teachers ramp up their job action.

Somebody is going to get assassinated!

Now that is good negotiating.

It could work well until the next election when the voters realize they have outsleazed the N.D.P.