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Today’s lesson: Soaking the system: Tom Bartlett
By Tom Bartlett
On TVO’s “The Agenda,” Steve Paikin amassed a number of disgruntled teachers who felt they had been unjustly vilified and wanted to air their grievances. As one who has worked in the public sector most of his career, I have been careful not to group all teachers together – thus stressing (as I will here) my sentiments are reserved for the union itself and those who adopt the union position carte blanche. I distinguish between willing cogs in the wheel of corruption as opposed to the workers and clients being rolled over by said wheel. Here’s what the cogs had to say for themselves.
Parents vs. militant teacher union
The Nanaimo Daily News – May 7, 2012
Letter: Parents rejecting public school and hostile union
Re: ‘Education should not be a commodity’ (Daily News, May 4)
New Ontario guidelines let teachers give zero credit for zero work
National Post – August 28, 2010
Freedom to fail: New Ontario guidelines let teachers give zero credit for zero work. What a concept
By Marni Soupcoff
Thirty years ago, when I was a young kid, some Ontario public schools were still using “the strap” as a form of corporal punishment. Not my middle class elementary school in mid-town Toronto, mind you. But my friend’s rural elementary school in central Ontario — and I’m sure countless others where the idea of discipline still called to mind leaving the kids shaking in their boots.