STF Annual Meeting of Council Will Feature Some New Wrinkles This Year
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It will be a case of something old and something new as a collection of 268 teachers from throughout the province are expected to participate in the Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation (STF) Annual Meeting of Council, April 26-29.
For the first time in recent memory the event will be held outside its traditional Easter week period, and also new will be the fact that, while many of the councillors are mainstays of the process, they will now be representing the much more streamlined public education landscape in the province. As a result of restructuring there will be 24 local associations represented, as well as those representing French language teachers, university education students and superannuates.
They will hold three days of meetings in Saskatoon at which they will deal with a host of issues including social and political advocacy, professional stewardship and responsibility, economic services and governance and administration of the STF.
In addition, delegates will be voting on Friday to elect a new provincial Executive with current President Heather Vermeersch and Vice-President Mel McCorriston as the two declared candidates for the top job.
The four-day event starts in earnest Thursday, April 27 with a series of speeches including Minister of Learning Deb Higgins, Canadian Teachers’ Federation President Winston Carter, Saskatchewan School Boards Association President Lance Bean and LEADS President-Elect Ben Grebinski as well as addresses by STF General Secretary Lyle Vinish and Vermeersch.
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Constance Fedorchuk said:
What is happening to the school drop outs and school push outs?
Since more boys than girls are droping out, what is happening to these boys that are dropping out and being pushed out of school? Who is taking responsibility for seeing that dropouts and pushouts are given alternative ways to get a high school diploma.
What is happening to dropsouts and pushouts that have learning disabilties???
Are the young men that are appearing in court almost every day in Moose Jaw, for example, all dropouts or pushouts or have learning disabilties?
DOES ANYONE KNOW why so many young men (17, 18, 19, 20 yrs old) are in trouble with the law? For example, what was really behind the young man that threatened two teachers at Peacock school in Moose Jaw. Why did he feel his only option was to go back to the school and threaten two FORMER TEACHERS???
What is the future for students with Learning Disabilties??????
April 29, 2006 | | Reply
Victor said:
Oh come on be serious.
If kids dropout it’s their own fault. The North American school system is so lenient as it is. The majority of students don’t care about learning, and it’s people who think like yourself that encourage them to ‘not care.’ By scaling up their marks so they dont fail or complaining about the number of dropouts to push schools to not drop any students at all. How does this solve the problem? Humans are smart, if they see that they can be lenient and still get through high school then they’ll do it since it works. The system here isn’t strict enough. Look anywhere else, Europe, Africa, Asia. The education systems are strict and the curriculum is much harder.
I’ve known so many students coming over from Russia, Asia, South Africa who get to high school here and they are bored. They don’t do any work, get bumped up grades, because they already know everything. Even if they are considered to have average/below average intelligence the school system is such that they are pressured to learn or else they drop out of school. Discipline is also enforced there, whereas high schools in North America are ridiculous with students insulting teachers and being rude in class. Tardiness, skipping classes, etc isn’t even punished appropriately.
October 16, 2006 | | Reply
Rita Rapley said:
sure your only option isnt to drop out, but some people cant handle the pressure schools only look at the general population, not the individual student, we all learn differently we need to be helped differently. there needs to be a place for those of us who are unsuccesful in high school to go and get future help, once your out of that routine, and end up needing to go back there is no affordable or even easy way, we need to become more like the english system and let our student out at 16, and still pay for post secondary, most people cant afford it. we need options for those people who need help. not just to shove them in some corner and pretend they arnt there, cause they still become a leech on soceity eventually if they arnt able to get help ffom somewhere.
February 24, 2008 | | Reply