Did you know there is a elementary school on BBY hill across from Nesters?
BC teachers are STILL locked out, and they're on the picket lines every day.
TSSU and the SFU's Education Student's Solidarity Committee are inviting all SFU community members to join them in solidarity tomorrow (Sept 12th) around lunch.
- 10am - meet at Archaeology Museum Atrium to make signs
- by 11am - march to Elementary school across from Nesters Market.
- (Should be done by 1pm, come for as much or little as you can, all solidarity is greatly appreciated)
PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Future Teachers at SFU to Demonstrate Solidarity for Public Schools and the BCTF
(BURNABY) As a part of a "Public School Solidarity Day of Action" being organized by student teachers, education students will march from the SFU campus and join striking teachers on the picket line on Friday September 12, 2014. Student teachers will join BCTF members at University Highlands Elementary School, which is located on the top of Burnaby Mountain in Burnaby. The march will begin at 11:00 AM, leaving from the SFU Faculty of Education Building.
"As student teachers, future professionals, and members of the community, we support and call for adequate funding for B.C. public schools," said Tom Kertes, a student teacher at SFU who had planned to start his final practicum in a grade five classroom on Monday if not for the labour dispute. "I call on the government to agree to binding attribution so the public schools can immediately reopen."Kertes said, "Christy Clark's hardline position against public school teachers is threatening the integrity of public schools. The Premier seems more intent on running a wreaking ball through the public school system than on building a path to end the labour dispute through a fair agreement with teachers."
Education students will be joined by members of the Teaching Support Staff Union (TSSU) and others who support the BCTF by calling on government to reach a fair resolution in the labour dispute.Education students at SFU have organized a Solidarity Committee to show support for public education and have adopted a statement of principles in support of the BCTF and it calls for a fair resolution to the labour dispute. For more information about the SFU Education Students Solidarity Committee visit:
http://sfueducationstudents.blogspot.ca/
