Teachers are at the end of their rope.

[WinnipegFan]

I am not surprised to see this starting.

https://globalnews.ca/news/9789863/c...al-strike/amp/

It is past due for teachers.

[Doctorfever]

How difficult can it be, offer them same as other teachers. Would be a good start…

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by Doctorfever

How difficult can it be, offer them same as other teachers. Would be a good start…

Dismantling the Catholic school board entirely and shifting everything to the CBE would be even better

[Snuffleupagus]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

Dismantling the Catholic school board entirely and shifting everything to the CBE would be even better

Dismantling everything Catholic would be the best

[Yoho]

Not much info in that other than “significantly worse”

Would like to see some numbers.

[Sliver]

Yeah, how far apart are the two sides? In what ways has the government offer fallen short of what they want and what other teachers get?

[Jason14h]

I didn’t even know they had different unions .

[Swift]

Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus

Dismantling everything Catholic would be the best

I'm with you 100% Snuffleupagus, and after we're done with the Catholics, we can move on to the Jews. Love it.

[Swift]

In retrospect, maybe I was a bit too hasty. Let's just rid ourselves of the Catholics first and then we'll see how things go from there.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by Swift

I'm with you 100% Snuffleupagus, and after we're done with the Catholics, we can move on to the Jews. Love it.

Don't be a tit. He's talking about doing away with the religious institution; not the human beings. Are you unaware of some of the terrible things the Catholic Church has done under the authority of a made-up book and undeserved/unchecked power?

[iggy_oi]

Originally Posted by Yoho

Not much info in that other than “significantly worse”

Would like to see some numbers.

Originally Posted by Sliver

Yeah, how far apart are the two sides? In what ways has the government offer fallen short of what they want and what other teachers get?

The article is pretty vague on where both sides are at but if the board was offering the same or better rates than the other teachers are getting I think that it’s safe to assume they would have mentioned that in their statements to the press.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

Dismantling the Catholic school board entirely and shifting everything to the CBE would be even better

CBE management sucks though can we keep the ccsd management and get rid of the churchy stuff?

[Swift]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Don't be a tit. He's talking about doing away with the religious institution; not the human beings.

Oh in that case I'm out Snuffleupagus.

[Swift]

I thought we were talking about the persecution of the people themselves, not just the eradication of their institutions.

[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by GGG

CBE management sucks though can we keep the ccsd management and get rid of the churchy stuff?

Yeah, CSSD is run a full order of magnitude better than CBE.

[Bill Bumface]

Originally Posted by Swift

I'm with you 100% Snuffleupagus, and after we're done with the Catholics, we can move on to the Jews. Love it.

It's either get rid of the Catholic school board, or start publicly funded Muslim, Hindu, Protestant and Mormon school boards and continue to raise our children in segregated environments where they are indoctrinated into a religion by their educators, and grow up with limited empathy toward others as they grow up without encountering people outside of their religious group.

[Barnet Flame]

I went to catholic schools in Calgary and I’ve made pretty clear my views on Catholicism and how it systematically indoctrinates children. Limited empathy for others however, isn’t a feature I recognised within my time in that school system. If anything, learning and living in a way that was empathetic to others was a very strong feature of my time there. I had some incredible teachers in that system.

When I was in Calgary this year, I met up with a retired teacher - not mine but a mutual friend with others and it was just amazing listening to his stories and how his pupils remained in contact with him - one of the stories was mind blowing.

I agree there shouldn’t be duplication of administration/overheads and segregation, but I do think I was a student within the better school system - minus the indoctrination of course.

[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by Barnet Flame

I went to catholic schools in Calgary and I’ve made pretty clear my views on Catholicism and how it systematically indoctrinates children. Limited empathy for others however, isn’t a feature I recognised within my time in that school system. If anything, learning and living in a way that was empathetic to others was a very strong feature of my time there. I had some incredible teachers in that system.

When I was in Calgary this year, I met up with a retired teacher - not mine but a mutual friend with others and it was just amazing listening to his stories and how his pupils remained in contact with him - one of the stories was mind blowing.

I agree there shouldn’t be duplication of administration/overheads and segregation, but I do think I was a student within the better school system - minus the indoctrination of course.

Yeah, my kids are in cbe because we didn't want the catholicism part, especially in elementary. But I've had multiple relatives who either attended both cbe and cssd, or taught in both cbe and cssd. And 100% of them (all but 1 are not catholic) say cssd is way better run. The atmosphere of the schools are better, the administration is way better, etc. I'm good to cut 1 set of overhead and consolidate, but if you do that you should cut cbe.

[2ArmBands]

Pay teachers properly already. I 100% support adequate compensation for them.

However, Is it wrong for me to in turn ask for less random days off my kids have? It’s insane how many days off my kids have throughout the year for no particular reason.

[Jason14h]

Originally Posted by 2ArmBands

Pay teachers properly already. I 100% support adequate compensation for them.

However, Is it wrong for me to in turn ask for less random days off my kids have? It’s insane how many days off my kids have throughout the year for no particular reason.

https://local38.teachers.ab.ca/SiteC...ALLOWANCES.pdf

Honestly 95$k for 10 months of work for 10 years experience isn’t properly?

Not trying to start a pay debate , but pay doesn’t seem out of whack

Now other factors - having to buy materials , class size , etc but seriously the job pays $10k a month (when they are working)