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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-10-18, Page 28PAGE 6A --GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1979 Review1 teacher rights BY JACK RIDDELL M.P.P. When the Legislature resumed after the summer recess, Liberal Leader Stuart Smith asked the Premier to enunciate his govern- ment's position on the right of teachers to strike and of school boards to lock out, now that the Ministry of Education's internal review of Bill 100 has been completed. Should school teachers go on strike? This question dominated much of the thinking at Queen's Park last week as the province's first elementary school teachers strike com- pleted its second week in Peel County. Since 1974 when the right to strike was ap- proved by the Ontario Legislature, there have been 19 strikes involving more than 300,000 students with an average of seven to eight weeks of lost schooling. A recent report analyzed the long and bitter secondary school teachers strike in Toronto and concluded that many students did not return to school and those who went on to . University experienced more dif- ficulties with their studies. There were also gns of replaced-resp-ert for teachers by their students. The issue is not an easy one to settle. Both the teachers and the school boards have genuine concerns that need to be resolved: The _,__teac_hers._. are.. _looking for a fair and just wage settlement that recognizes today's runaway inflation. In a time of declining enrolment, they also want some fair and equitable arrangement for deciding which teachers are to be let go. The school board on the. other hand, must be aware of its stewardship of the taxpayers' money, especially at a time when a larger share of the cost of education is being borne by local property taxpayers. The board is also responsible for. providing the best•quality education it can and therefore, wants to retain its best teachers. The issue is not black and white - both sides have strong feelings about the rightness of their case. The real question then, is not who is right or who is wrong, but rather how to resolve the differences in a fair way. We have now had five years ' of experience in using strikes as the settlement procedure. Nobody- seems satisfied with the results. Teachers are professionals; they are aware of their 'respon- sibilities to the.jr students; and they do not like the disruptive effect of a strike on the learning process. Trustees are elected to keep schools open, not closed;• they are deeply aware of public• animosity •to a strike situation; and they too do not want students. schooling to be so violently disrupted. Students and their parents see themselves as the innocent victims in this • power struggle. Students become skep- tical and disenchanted with the value of education when they see that it can be,interrupted for almost two months. Parents see their family life seriously disrupted, especially in those families where both parents must work outside the home. The social and moral consequences of large numbers of children having so much free time on their hands has not yet been measured, but it. must surely be detrimental. As we move into the 1980s, it seems clear to Me at (east that a better way must be found to Turn to page 7A . We Nuevo the right to limit quantities t r\\ normal family requirerrrentsl Prices effective thru Saturday, October 20th, 1979. WE REDEEM ALL FOOD STORE COUPONS! Leto Canada, Provincial & Wintario tickets available at A&P food stores! TSAVE 61? Old South, Frozen, Concentrated, 100% Florida ORANGE JUICE 12,5 -fl -oz tin ti6 SAVE 70?] j" --Th BORDEN ICE CREAM 2 litre carton or OurReg. 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