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So this poses a question in my mind....if you are a teacher, how WOULD YOU see other teachers answering text messages during class? If you, in fact, witnessing them NOT answering text messages that would indicate that you were present in their classroom during class. Logically, it would follow that if you WERE in their classroom during class...........that would make you a student. Hmmm.

And sitting behind a desk in high school is not "in the trenches".

Lots of teachers answer personal text messages right at the front of class, which is why students don't get in trouble for doing the same. This has nothing to do with the 1960s...if they want to answer texts, maybe they should wait until between classes just like REAL PEOPLE DO during meetings. You know, like in the real world. Where people work. And for the record, I don't hear anything from the "teacher bashers". I am a teacher basher. Not a troll though - moved out from under the education bridge long ago.

I was dealing with the teaching profession when you were riding your first bmx bike. This has been happening for ages. I would assume in ever single jurisdiction there is. The comment about how new teachers are teaching includes everything from "new math" to answering text messages in class to being generally unprofessional (drinking in a pub during pd days would fall into this category in case you were googling it on your smart phone...ahem...make believe "teachers' aid). Quick - post a link to a teacher's twitter feed or something to back up your side of the argument

Jacee, I agree they should be reported. The problem, in my board jurisdiction anyway, is the Superintendent of the board doesn't give a damn. I know. I went to the board office and talked with him one on one. He simply brushed it off - didn't deny it, just wouldn't comment on it one way or the other. I had some fantastic teachers growing up. One is still teaching (get this - my grade 6 teacher also taught my son and my daughter grade 6...25 and 26 years later). Until a couple of years ago, I kept in contact with two of them and guess what? They were pretty disappointed with the way the "new kids" are teaching too. It's enough to break your heart when you see these clowns out doing this in full public view. Why they wouldn't just go to someone's basement and drink beer I'll never know.

Okay then. I must have been "delusioning". Keep trying to convince people that teachers and the boards only schedule pd days on Fridays and Mondays so they don't disturb classes. See if that gets any traction. Your "profession" (let's just keep the illusion going shall we?) has turned into a joke. And, unfortunately, the good teachers along with it.

And that has what, exactly, to do with teachers "pd days" where they do anything except "professional development" and a strike? Nothing, that's what. A once-noble profession has been destroyed by self-serving individuals. Socialist, it's too bad you're not really a teacher. Your little act on this board is pathetic.

MCC, maybe someone should tell that to the principal, "assistant" principals (no such thing as Vice Principals anymore), and assorted teachers that go to the local Irish pub in town to have a couple of pints on "Professional Development" days. I'll give them this: they certainly look sheepish when you walk over and say hi. PD days somehow mysteriously always end up on a Friday and/or Monday of a long weekend......hmmmmm.....must be the only times they can book really high quality PD speakers.

This is hilarious. I watched for several years while my brother and sister in-laws (both teachers with the local board) dropped their kids off with my wife, went and signed in at the "Professional Development" seminars in the morning, and then were back in 20 minutes to grab their kids and disappear back home (and golfing in the case of the BIL). PD days my ass. "Forced professional development"?? You meant to say "forced days off with pay". Teachers ARE scum (most, not all). They have certainly earned this reputation through their actions (and inactions). "Beligerent ignorance"?? Perhaps for those people that form their opinions without knowing first hand how teachers actually operate, but for those of us who are intimately familiar with their tactics (and how the individual schools manage their budgets), the best thing that could happen would be for these lazy, self righteous, money grubbing forms of life to throw in the towel and go do something more in line with their mindsets. Like bag men for the local protection racketeers. edit - In case you didn't guess, I'm not a fan of teachers. Just saying.

The sunshine list shows people grossing over 100k, so this chart has basically nothing to do with it anyway (completely different metric). I said it would be nice to see both gross and net pay on the same chart for all three groups. This also has nothing to do with the sunshine list. Unfortunately, your opinion isn't supported by what is shown in the HRSDC chart. edit - my mistake. I just noticed my first post was asking for net instead of gross. Should have been the latter.

I'd love to see that chart reworked with the three groups each having secondary lines - after tax (net) income. Just the mandatory norms (Federal, Provincial, EI, CPP). Now THAT would be interesting...a modified Sunshine List comparing take home pay. Michael, you know as well as I do that the change in the smaller range will always be difficult to see on a high-range chart. If a top 20% went from 100k to 120k (20% increase), it would show easily. If someone making 15k had the same increase (to 18k), it would be a very small bump in the line.

Actually, yes I do. If I had called him what I really think of him, it would have had several words and I would likely have been banned from the board.

Big Guy, I'm still a little confused as to who is "going after her". Do you mean the posters in this thread? She has a mental illness and speaks about it at functions and goes on to write books. Not exactly someone who is "hiding" from the public eye - quite the opposite in fact. Good for her. It should sell some of her books. Now if she wants to start supplying quotes to the press, that's "entering the ring". The woman was married to one of the most reviled people to live in this country, so you should expect strong reactions when anyone with that last name and that close of a connection to that bastard comes up.

Don't worry, they'll demand class size reductions, more staff, all that "for the children" stuff - and then they'll get a raise in pay and go back to work happy. But of course, they're doing it for the children as you say.

Policies on personal hygiene exist in almost every workplace that isn't a mom and pop operation. I've had to have that (remarkably uncomfortable) conversation with a few people over my management career. Never had to have it twice with the same person. Now the "boob shirt" conversation was considerably worse. Three women in my office in the same day......ugh.

I thought all "learners" needed was a smartphone?? You can buy an awful lot of top end phones for the price of one bloated teacher's salary. And of course a lot of teachers would love to get rid of tests - it's about the only way left to measure teaching performance (and we sure as hell don't want a teacher being measured). Same reason they want to get rid of PATs in Alberta - it was too easy to compare jurisdictions when they all used the same test.

Here's a perfect example of a teacher that instructed his idea of "social justice". Guess you're right...you shouldn't have to be neutral. http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/keegstra-case/

I applaud your knowing when to quit talking.

I'm going to add my two cents here and then just sit back. 1) I am in 100% support of assisted death in the cases the SCC spoke of. This is not murder, it is dignity. It already happens, so it's time to make it legal. 2) The "death machine-like pump" that people keep referring to is a PCA (patient-controlled analgesic pump). It is NOT given to anyone to help end their life (it absolutely could be, but that's illegal); it is given to ease pain. The pumps are pre programmed to administer ONLY what the doctor has ordered as a medication dose and cannot be changed by anyone without a key (and those keys are very, very controlled). The patient can push the button as many times as they'd like but the pump is locked on a maximum timed-dose frequency and will not release any meds until the timer expires (this can be set to whatever the doctor orders - 5min, 30min, 6 hours, etc). One of the downfalls of the units is in cases like bone cancer where the maximum allowable dose is not enough to control the pain and any increase would be fatal - this is where new legislation is needed. For the record, ending your life is the most simple of functions if you happen to be in a hospital setting. There is potassium pretty much everywhere on any normal unit (especially the ICUs) as they have to keep it handy for diabetic emergency. An IV injection of K will stop things pretty quickly (it's why they use KCl in executions) and if injected into an IV line (especially a central), it would cause almost immediate death and there would be absolutely no trace of the injection. The interesting thing is the human body releases a huge portion of it's cellular potassium immediately after death so it's nearly impossible to track - medical examiners use potassium content to determine time of death so that would show a false reading. No proof of "assistance". Before her death, I know my wife had agreements with several other nurses to make damn sure they would not have to stay in the condition that they usually see their patients in ICU (and believe me, most critical care nurses have the same "pacts" with someone - maybe not brand new nurses, but any that have been around a while do). This was unnecessary because I was there to make the final decision, but her friends would have made certain that her final wishes were carried out regardless. She had made that decision years before and I am dumbfounded that any legal system anywhere would try to assume the right to force her to continue living in the state she was in. She was 39 and deserved to pass away with dignity. And she did.

There is Public health care in Canada, but it's not even close to free. And it's also a multi-payer system and multi-tier. Joe Blow public has one system, welfare has another, military has another, sports teams have yet another. No such thing as free health care in Canada (unless you're on welfare).

There is a PC party, but you are correct that it does not contain any conservatives. The "red tories" have controlled it since Klein left.

So, to dislike or even question multiculturalism is in and of itself a "bigoted" action. And people think conservatives are close-minded.

Case in point. I guess this statement makes Bonam a bigot.

Well, thank god for that. 'Bout time they started flying those things over the wasteland. As for Iraq having... ...I believe those were called "scud missiles" and we all know how wonderfully those worked out.

Except we're not bilingual. A couple of pieces of Canada are bilingual, the Canada as a "state" is not.