The BC Government Needs to Sit Down and Watch a Few Episodes of 'Til Debt Do Us Part!

In any home there are expenses. I'm going to put them into two simple categories. There are other expenses as well, but for the sake of my argument today I am just going to focus on needs and wants. We have necessary services and items that are integral to our survival, mortgage/rent, food, heat, power, the needs or things we must have. Wants are the things we don't need, but like to have, they make life more comfortable and easy, cable TV, internet service, gym passes... how much do you use it anyway right? When times are tough, like now, we as heads of our household, need to cut back on the wants, so we can focus on the needs. We find a way to make it work, we pick up extra shifts or work late, we drop the gym pass, and quit eatting out... Life gets a little harder, but you learn to live without the extras. You learn what is truly important in life.  When there are extra funds you can take back a few of those luxuries

Dear Government of British Columbia... Education is a need, and you are treating it as though it is a luxury item. I know there are places you could be cutting back spending to make up for the lack of funding in our public school system. I have seen some government programs that are completely superfluous and in my opinion an outright squandering of tax payers money.  I don't claim to have all the answers, I know it is no easy task balancing the needs and wants of an entire province. Sorry, but if we little guys can get it done in our homes, why can't you? You may think large class sizes and composition of classes do not have a big impact on each child individually, and may be they don't. But as a whole you are making the choice to hold back entire generations of children for what....money. Cut the fat, look at your budget again, find a way to make it work. The children of today and tomorrow deserve the best chance they can get. Closing schools and cramming our children into classrooms like sardines is not the answer, and should have never been an option. Start acting like the head of the household and make it work!

As British Columbians, we are walking a very thin line on a twisted kind of dictatorship here, last I remember we live in a world where we can speak up, be heard, and make a difference. Where our opinions matter. Where change is meant to be for the better, not taking a step backwards. Please support our teachers and their mission to make the future brighter. To those in opposition of the BCTF's actions, take off your rose colored glasses and think for a minute about what is really happening here. If the government bullies the BCTF to give up, refuses to make any changes, and continues to bulldoze the foundation of our education system, what's next? Don't knock the teacher's for fighting for these changes, they are fighting for something we should have never lost in the first place...