Hal 9000

No, all those things and more have happened this year with the exception of the Xmas concert being cancelled (that happened when my kids were in kindergarden). But whatever, the point is; you can try to make things mean whatever you want. Personally, with the amount of kids that a teacher teaches over their career, they'd have to be a pretty terrible person if they didn't have at least a few kids that they've touched in a big way. So what though, what does a few postings on twitter mean to whether the teachers should get a bigger raise than every other union that has already settled? The teachers are elitists who think they're better than the rest of us, they're more cultured. If you don't believe me just go over to the teachers forums or the Tyee and check out how condescending they are towards parents and us regular folk.

Teachers spewing off about the great things they do and how the kids love them isn't evidence of anything. We can also start a twitter feed and tell stories of teachers bullying kids, playing favourites, refusing to attend sports functions or christmas concerts, spending their day on their computer, taking months to grade papers, being caught at the beach or ski hill when apparently "sick", plugging kids into videos because their too "whatever" to be bothered teaching etc etc. Some teachers are fine, some not so much. Some nit witted twitter feed means nothing.

It's really a matter of "what constitutes pain?"...and, who judges when someone "in pain" can't advocate for themselves"?

Internet polls aren't worth a sheet. Respondants to internet polls are generally the youth (who are skewed left)and women (who are also by in large skewed to the left), add in kids who really don't know the issues and implications of such matters, it's no surprise that internet polls favour the left wing ideals. If an internet poll shows a 50/50 split, that means that in the real world the left is in trouble, If the poll leans right, the left is in major trouble. No one knows the amount of percentage points that we're talking about and no one knows how to correct or adjust for the discrepancy, including the polling companies themselves, but it is there and was proven in the last election. Anyway, in the real world the teachers are not supported very much and even they are beginning to see this. They know that this 48 hour loophole has cost them what little support they had. The general consensus among people I know is that they will settle if the government throws them some sort of bone that shows that the teachers have faired well and done the right thing "for the children". Essentially, the government will win but Christy Clark will have to go in front of the cameras and choke down a "teachers care" speech. P.S - I still reserve the right to assume that the BCTF is delusional about the amount of public support they think they have