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Sep 21, 2020 7 tweets 3 min read Read on X
Rumours abound about an election call. Time for a review.

Spring 2017 : Based on commitments made at BCTF meetings over 14 years, teachers volunteer hundreds of hours to help BCNDP candidates to get elected. Six are elected in the largest school district, Surrey.
#bced #bcpoli
Fall 2017: Teachers are dismayed to watch their working conditions deteriorate because the warnings about a teacher shortage were ignored by Minister Fleming. Hundreds of students don’t have a classroom teacher for the first 4 months of the school year.
Summer 2018: A funding formula review is published that, if implemented would make class size and composition language in collective agreements unenforceable.
Spring 2019 : BCPSEA under the direction of the BCNDP demand concessions that would result in a massive reduction of teachers in most urban school districts by wiping out class size and other protections.
Fall 2019: The BCNDP Ministry of education denies the grades fiasco

Spring 2020: The BCNDP Ministry of Education gaslights teachers with newsletters that point out the importance of schools for students.
Summer 2020: The BCNDP Ministry of Education betrays the work of the steering committee by announcing a 100% return to school

Fall 2020: The BCNDP Ministry of education gaslights the president of @bctf by dismissing concerns raised about unsafe working conditions in schools
Overall, the only improvement in the working conditions for teachers pre-pandemic was a result of the Supreme Court of Canada win.

That's the context within which teachers will greet an election call.

And now you know @bcndp

#bced #bcpoli

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More from @LizanneFoster

Apr 10, 2021
We're repeatedly told that schools have to stay open because that's important for students' mental health but whose mental health is being prioritized by Minister Whiteside? 🧵 1/?
#bcpoli #bced
2/?
Certainly not the student who's terrified that their maskless peers are sitting right next to them in a windowless classroom in a school with inadequate ventilation.
3/?
Nor is it the Grade 6 student who texts their mom in the middle of the day to fetch them from school because they're worried about all the maskless students sitting around them in class. They are terrified of taking the variant home to their 40 year old parents.
Read 10 tweets
Mar 27, 2021
🧵 Teachers in #bced, in the absence of adequate protections from the @bcndp gov't, let's crowdsource best ideas to keep safe when there's no mask mandate.

1. Wear an N95 mask or equivalent that fits tightly around your face or if you don't have these, double mask.

#bcpoli
2. Follow the advice of Dr. Fauci and the mandatory rule of the Peel School District: wear goggles or a face shield. The virus is airborne. You need to keep it out of your eyes.
#bcpoli

toronto.ctvnews.ca/peel-district-…
3. If you are lucky enough to have windows that open, keep them wide open. The virus is airborne. Don't give it opportunities to accumulate in your classroom.
If you're not, for the sake of survival, get a HEPA filter air purifier for your classroom. #bcpoli
Read 10 tweets
Dec 21, 2020
Being calm & kind will support mental health but it's truth that will keep us safe.
To that end, a few question suggestions for @richardzussman:
What data, exactly, shows that there is low/no transmission in #bced schools & that students don't transmit the virus? 1/?
#bcpoli
2/?
Why did the Minister of Public Safety, and not the Public Health Officer, mandate masks in all indoor public spaces?

#bcpoli
3/?
Why did the Deputy Minister of Health, and not the Public Health officer, mandate masks in hospitals?
#bcpoli
Read 7 tweets
Dec 20, 2020
WHY was it the Minister of Public Safety that ordered the mask mandate for indoor public spaces?

Perhaps #bced teachers should implore @mikefarnworthbc to keep them safe in the indoor public spaces that classrooms are.
#bcpoli

bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document…
Is this why it was the Minister of Public Safety and not the Public Health Office behind the mask mandate?

To whom should terrified #bced teachers turn for legislative action on their behalf?
#bcpoli
bc.ctvnews.ca/retail-council…
And WHY was it the Ministry of Health that ordered the mask mandate in hospitals on 5 November and not the Public Health Office?

#bcpoli #COVID19 #Covid19BC

doctorsofbc.ca/sites/default/…
Read 5 tweets
Dec 20, 2020
" As such, a vaccine alone, no matter how effective, will not tip the balance toward health because COVID-19 is not a disease; it is a symptom of an exhausted planet. "
theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…
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Read 4 tweets
Dec 13, 2020
Schools are being kept open not because of the need for educating students, their primary function, but because #bced performs a social safety net function in the provision of food, & the support of mental health in children. 1/?
2/? Schools perform these functions despite the fact that there is a Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction, a Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions, and a Ministry of Child and Family Development in BC.
3/? The ‘downsides’ that Dr Henry talks about to closing schools is not related to a loss of learning but to the loss of food and mental health support for children in one of the richest provinces in Canada. A province where 1 in 5 children lives in poverty.
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