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Teachers get wrists slapped by WV board

Professional days cancelled in 1984

“PUNISHMENT” DISCIPLINARY action, retri- bution, or just a slap on the wrist?’’

For an out-of-work North Shore man a lawn sign made sense. But it hasn’t worked yet.

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North Vancouver and Co- By BILL BELL quitilam, we were shut out tn

Those were the words ban- died about by West Vancou- ver school trustees Monday night to describe its decision to cancel all teacher profes- sional days between January and June 1984

The trustees would make the professional days into instructional days in hopes of regaining the three days the district) lost to teacher political yob action.

Trustee Michael! Smith was furious with the teachers’ ac tion dunng the withdrawal of services and tn particular with the West Vancouver Teacher Association (WVTA) executive

“We tried to meet with the WVTA crecutive and we were told that nothing could be done on the local level | don't know if we want to get too close tot he WV TA of we will get poked in the cye with a picket,’ Smith said

“While other districts were meeting them teachers in

West Vancouver _.. political protest is not acceptable here in West Vancouver, the teachers must realize that we are a community that will always come down on the side of law and order

Although all of the trustees agreed that something should be done to regain the instruc- uonal days, trustee Frank McDowell and Dawn Sikula both felt that cancelling the professional days was “premature

“*The Ministry of Education and The BC Teachers’ Federation and the BC School Trustees Association are Meeting to discuss this issue, we should warn for some directives,” McDowell said

However. trustee Margot burk told the board that at should be prepared to go our own way 7"

“We must act in the best interest of the Children, notin the best interest of the staff.” Furk said

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