Big suprise – the BCTF has criticized the government's new budget
The British Columbia Teachers' Federation has condemned the B.C. government's recently released budget.
Big surprise.
At the heart of its criticisms, outlined in a press release full of shrill rhetoric last week, is the comparison between the privatization of health care and the privatization of the public education system.
Also key to the release is the BCTF's attempt, once again, to save face from its ill-conceived strike last year.
The only thing learned from that strike should be just how strong pubic opinion was against the teachers and their union. To continue to try to justify it by alluding to it over and over again is simply pathetic.
On the issue of comparing the privatization in health and education there are some interesting things missing from the BCTF's press release – real numbers. The BCTF uses percentages to criticize the government without providing real, meaningful data.
We find that ironic, considering it is the BCTF who criticizes the Fraser Institute's Report Card on B.C. High Schools for that exact same thing.
It seems the BCTF wants to have its cake and eat it, too.
The BCTF continues to fight any accountability within the education system, and yet wants taxpayers to write it a blank cheque when it comes to education funding.
You can't have it both ways, and as long as the BCTF continues to spread this type of irrelevant and self-serving rhetoric, then we guess that taxpayers will continue to question and criticize what is happening in their schools.
And so they should.
