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TF ACHERS IN West Vancouver’s District 45 have voted
overwhelmingly not to join the rest of B.C.’s teachers in the
current instruction-only campaign organized to protest the
proposed legislation contained in bills 19 and 20.

Co-president of the West Van-
couver Teachers Association
(WVTA) Kit Krieger said Thursday
he could not give specific percent-
ages of how many of the district’s
approximately 300 teachers had
voted not to join the campaign,
but ‘it was a substantial miajori-

The WVTA has an ‘‘obligations
of teachers’’ clause in its contract
with the West Vancouver School
Board that is unique in B.C.’s 75
school districts.

Under the terms of the clause,

teachers must, beyond regular in-

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struction, ‘‘endeavor to be active-
ly involved in’? supporting school
functions and activities that
enhance the schoo! environment
and promote studen: participation
in co-curricular activities.

Other teacher obligations,
beyond regular daily instruction,
include providing educational ad-
vice and instructional assistance to
individual pupils assigned to them.

On Jan, 29, the WVTA gave the
required six months’ notice needed

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to have the obligation clause
removed from the contract, and
has since sought legal advice as to
the legality of joining the instruc-
tion-only campaign with the clause
in their contract.

Krieger said the advice received
was ambiguous. The WVTA exec-
utive, therefore, recommended its
membership vote against joining
the instruction-only campaign,
which began April 24 after it was
approved by a 70 per cent R.c.
Teachers Federation (BCTF) ma-
jority vote.

“t's a contract. we value,"
Krieger said. ‘The teachers in
West Vancouver would like ¢(o be
supporting the campaign, but good
faith is the cornerstone of trust be-
tween trustees and teachers."’

He added that removal of the
clause would be a matter of
negotiation after July 29,

West Vancouver School Board
chairman George Suart said he was
pleased with the results of the
WVTA vote: “We have tried hard
to cement our relationship with
our teachers and [ think we have
been successful. We are very hap-
py. It's great for the kids.””

In North Vancouver, District
44's 800 teachers will continue cut-
ting involvement in any extra-cur-
ticular activities.

North Vancouver Teachers
Association president Andy
Krawezyk said the association had
conducted a private count of
members’ votes on whether to con-
tinue to support the BCTF instruc-

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protest

tion-only campaign and had for-
warded the results to the federa-
tion, which will advise teachers of
further strategy.

He declined to give the results,
but said he couid foresee no
change in sight.

BCTF president Elsie McMur-
phy has said recent government
changes to Bill 20 are too minor to
stop teacher opposition. She said
the BCTF's instruction-only cam-
paign will continue indefinitely.

The North Shore Secondary
Schools Track and Field meet,
which annually involves about 700
athletes and was scheduled to run
Thursday at Swangard Stadium,
was cancelled fcr the first time in
20 years after it fell victim to the
instruction-only campaign.

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