[habmann]

Euro Ford Fan,Mar 7 2006, 07:58 AM Wrote:Guys your paying for a service which your not getting you have the legal right to sue the college for time loss disruptions, mental anguish and a whole host of other things.

At the very least you should get a refund for every day your not a school, you have already paid for the service.

Don't get left behind by another greedy union group, they work for you never forget that!
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So far no student has ever lost a semester. So as it stands right now if its a long strike, what i've been told is they'll just tack weeks onto the end of the semester to make up for the missed time.

Altho i do agree that the union is being greedy. Yes its about class sizes, but the other major issue is prep time. The union wants their full time teachers to teach about 13 hrs a week, with the rest being prep time. Now really i know what my teachers teach me, and its the same thing they've taught the class the year before, and the class before that. My teachers pull out a binder of notes that they've prepared and teach from those. So yes the first few years of teaching a course there's alot more work, but once you've taught it a few times, I'd argue that the amount of prep that teachers do for a class is reduced quite alot. And if you want to include marking tests and assignments in prep time we could do that too. But looking back to how much more teachers had to mark in high school compared to college, I'd say college teachers have it pretty good. And high school teachers have to teach way more than 13 hrs a week.

And with regards to class size, what does it really matter whethers there's 40 people in a lecture or 200. Bigger room is all that changes, doesn't effect what the teacher teaches. Yes labs are limited in size, but generally you can only put the number of students in a lab that you have space for. So I don't think that's as big an issue as its made out to be.


I needed to let that all out, normally in the past i woulda told the teachers where to go and how to get their over their strike. But my future and my marks would be negatively effected by some of my remarks so i've had to keep them to myself.

Now what i'm about to write may cause a stir but thats ok, debate is good.

I for one believe, that teachers shouldn't be allowed to strike during a school year. I am entitled to an education in Canada, and the teachers striking would prevent that. I've had to go through or be threatened with a strike 4 or 5 times through the course of my educational career. When i was in Gr 8, i had the teachers walk out because of Bill 160, a totally illegal strike. Then in high school i went through to work to rule campaigns, which limited extra curricular activities, and now i thought once i got to college that would all go away. But no in my first year the teachers settled the nite before their imposed strike deadline. Ok great, and now the this time, I'm loosing class time. You wanna strike, do it in the summer, picket/protest over christmas, reading week. Theres lots of time to protest when it doesn't involve the students. Which the teacher claim are their number 1 priority.

Ok I'm done, thanx for listening.