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_ Tammy Brink —
_P'd rather go to school

_. because there’s nothing
: much to do. However, | do
want to gat the work done.
_ = to get it over with So it

doesn’t carry on In the
summer. There are more

|. things to do in the sum-
-mer.

Roxanne Dugaro

| don't Ilke It because
there will

hard for grads because

~ they don’t graduate till all

- their work is done. It’s a

. waste of time for us and
others. | '

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homework to make up for
time we iost. Aiso, it's -

- aay.

Vinny: Redmond
(Grade 11)
It -hasn’t really effected

me. yet. -} don’t have to =
| take. government exams,
so I'm not on a rigid.
schedule. We can go In

and work on our own to a

certain extent. It wouldn’t |
_ be. convenient to make up

courses in the .summer,
though.

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Linda Smith.
My children are in kin-

Anne Burton
(from Kitimat)
It was very inconveni-

ent for me because | work —

outside the home. I’m
glad It was settled
quickly.

Cindy Lambright

*, tte. okay because It
gives us more of a holt:

dergarten and Grade 1. It

‘hasn’t--affected their

school work as such, but

has disrupted our routine.

It will be ‘harder for chil-
drenin older grades — as
far as ours aré concerned,

~ It's Just a long holiday.

Tina Devaney

| think It’s dumb
because | have to stay at
home more. | wouldn't
want to make up the
school work in the sum-
mer.

‘what they feel is right and those

I'd like to explain. why I’ve
been on the inside looking. out at
some fellow Thornhill Primary
School teachers whose dedica-
tion and teaching skills I respect.

and admire. I don’t think many
‘of them really want to be in-

volved in a strike which has our

_students caught in the middle.
_ Some walk the picket line, some

provide daycare for the children
of fellow teachers, and some sit
at home quietly waiting for the
strike to end. They. are all doing

of us inside the schools are only
doing the same thing. - .

I could not voluntarily join
the TDTA because it meant join-
ing the BCTF which sanctions
and perhaps promotes. striking
against children, Every strike
leaves some scars, be they finan-

cial, emotional, political or

educational, and children . are
often indirectly involved even if
the strike. is at a steel mill or a
newspaper office. Lost income is
rarely regained after settlement,
homes are lost, families suffer

- stress, and companies go bank-
‘rupt. When innocent children

are directly affected, they lose
instruction time, social’ time,
and perhaps even the chance ata
scholarship or an’. imminent

_ graduation.

Each- new strike seems: to be
called for small and less im-

- portant issues than those nearer

to the beginning of the labour
movement. We no longer need

to fight for child labour laws,’
basic pension rights, or an end

-to sixteen hour work days.

Couldn’t all this strike energy be
turned toward improving
negotiation and mediation

skills? There are some unions

now who take a very con-
ciliatory approach and go from
contract to contract without any
major conflicts. They, can still

‘Oni the inside looking out

To the Editor;

‘protect the members of their

bargaining unit, ensuring no one.

is treated unfairly or overly:
favored, .and they can negotiate.

wages, benefits and working
conditions without ‘making

headlines. .
The somewhat more confron- ©
tational BCTF has been a quasi-..

union, since at least the. early

seventies and the TDTA has -
been in the forefront of the

strike movement since the spring
of 1981 ;-It seems to me that each

time more money is voted in to_
‘pay the full-time TDTA presi- .
dent, more strikes and confron- ©
tational actions must be taken to -

justify the cost. I’m sure that if

-we were still an association with
‘a voluntary executive, we could

hire a good negotiator for less.
than half of what the local union

members are paying out right —

now. Terrace teachers didn’t

- seem to be suffering before 1981

and some of the currently con-
tentious issues seem rather petty
when compared to strikes. in

' Poland or South Africa. What
Kind of example is being set for

the children we teach?

I truly don’t believe we should

have the right to strike against
children, but I also don’t feel

that the BCTF should be offer-.

ing policy stateients on nuclear
submarines, uranium mining,
guaranteed yearly income,
Nicaragua, abortion or -other
subjects. which do hot relate
directly to learning conditions. or
teacher welfare.

I respect the rights of my
fellow teachers to express their
views in whatever way they have
chosen. The above opinions are
my own and, although you may
not share my point of view, I
hope you will respect my right to
express them, a

Joan Cox,

Terrace, B.C. ,

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