I can’t believe the gall of this government. First they stab the teachers in the back by publicly raising the issue of the professional development trips taken abroad during collective bargaining, then they try to portray themselves as caring deeply about the education system while at the same time undermining those people who work in it day in and day out.
Quite frankly the only skill these people bring to the game is the appalling use of dirty tricks to serve their own purpose and to hell with the consequences.
Shame on them. –Citizen appalled at the government
This article appears in Jan 26 – Feb 1, 2017.
Wait… you support teachers going to island paradises on “professional development” trips yet leaving your kids “professional development” to blow in the wind? Wow.
No Santa in class.
Professional development in Hawaii.
Two more days vacation.
The government doesn’t have to “portray themselves as caring deeply about the education system”.
They just have to give the teachers enough rope…
Well, I guess they should have tossed the olive branch away and led with the knife, cuz there ain’t no pleasing the teachers anyway. Fire the lot of them and rehire!!!
Teachers are pissed about one thing and that’s losing the long service award. It’s not about the professional days & certainly not about the kids – it’s all about the money, period. Those greedy pontificating pigs (who average $86k-$135k a year) want to burden the taxpayers of this broke province with millions in unsustainable awards. The long service award for provincial public servants was trashed in 2014 and so it should be for teachers. Premier McNeil will have my vote next election.
Well, if I recall correctly, I know of at least one poster on this board that happily accepted their long service award upon retiring from the government. #hypocrite.
At least teachers fill their day with work and don’t spent their time playing mahjong tiles on the tax payer’s dime.
“Quite frankly the only skill these people bring to the game is the appalling use of dirty tricks to serve their own purpose and to hell with the consequences. Shame on them. ” i’m confused which group you are talking about tbh
Agreed! Also remember when they took tuition caps off, took away graduate retention tax credit & then tried to spend the funds that could have been used to help encourage young entrepreneurship for hiring interns for themselves (politicians) to do their own random admin tasks. They forget they work for us. Can’t wait to vote them out.
Also, to fix some MISinformation regarding the ‘average’ salary of teachers in NS:
“According to Statistics Canada, the average starting salary in 2013-14 for teachers in Nova Scotia was $56,149. The average salary at the top of the scale was $79,937. According to numbers provided by the province, a teacher’s average salary in 2015 was $76,133.” Dec 17, 2016
Not really sure where this ‘most teachers make 86-135k/yr’ nonsense came from. but a simple google search proves otherwise.
Your searching skills need considerable improving. If one was to look through the last several issues of Frank magazine, they could see for themselves that most teachers make far beyond $56k. Below is where they sourced this information. Read the black & white for yourself before shooting off your mouth, PeePee:
http://www.novascotia.ca/finance/en/home/p…
As an old boss once said to me: ‘Let the records show!’
Hahahaha are you for real? ^^
I dunno, I’d rather trust stats can than the crack team of mathematicians at Frank Magazine.
But maybe that’s just me.
Let’s just agree to disagree and leave it at that. Not interested in engaging in a pointless pissing match.
“a teacher’s average salary in 2015 was $76,133.”
To be fair and compare teacher’s pay rate with the less fortunate, you need to look at rate of pay. For convenience sake, if we look at $76,000 on average for 10 months work (and less when you take off three weeks vacation at Christmas and mid-term break) it works out to over $7600/month. That is an equivalent pay rate to $91,200 for a full work year.