That's right the teachers are on strike. It doesn't really affect me since I am in university; however, it effects my brother whom still study in high school. The teachers break laws by striking, since the government had legislated that teachering is an essential service and thus deemed striking illegal.

This causes great inconvinece to the parents, and may have some negative consequences on unproactive kids unable to learn on their own. That being said, I do believe, if you really want to learn you can easily learn everything in the provincal without the teachers.

In fact, my brother rushed off to do a school project just now.

Some teachers does not teach. For example, Mr. Ryan gives you crappy notes for 15minutes, and then tells you to read Habden and do questions every class. Nevertheless, I values some teachers. In my text-bookless caculus class, we depended quite heavily on Mr. Peters's print outs.

The teachers talk about rediculous class size. Many parents believe they exaggerate the problem. Many parents believe teachers strikes for their own benefits. My Chinese teachers think good teachers should never consider striking. She believes that teachers should teach simply for their love for the young generations. I respect her for that.

Wages probably play a part in the strike, no doubt about that.

Yet, I refuse to think 90.5% teachers whom voted for job action strike simply for their wages. I cannot accept that 90.5% of the teachers teach for money and not because they like teaching. Some of them can care less of course. But some of them are great teachers who skip lunches to sponsor clubs, and stay after school to help students for no extra money.

Parents don't understand that class size has been a growing problem in the last few years. After the last forced contract, class size noticably got higher. Class size limit disappeared, the art class in grade my grade 10 year consisted of 4 different classes grouped in one (40+ students).

Last year's Mandarin class was a 3 in 1 class, our abinitio (total beginners), SL (standard level), HL (higher level) classes combined into a class. Ms. Ding cannot split her attention into three. The differences between AB and HL is too high to teach together. In the end, the AB students often just sit in the class doing nothing.

My other class did not fare well either. Sometimes we run out of chairs in the beginning of the year, That problem stopped when students began to skip classes, or dropped the course all together. We also don't have enough text books, so in some class we have to share.

Boo to those teachers striking for benefit. Respect goes to the 9.5% whom did not vote yes, and those teachers who are striking because of class size.


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