Editor:
As the B.C. teachers' strike continues, it is now very apparent the premier has made this a personal vendetta against the BCTF.
Premier Christy Clark and Education Minister Peter Fassbender care little for our children's education. In fact, they display an anti-education vigor based on denying children of an entrenched right of providing public education. Instead of treating the teachers' strike with the importance that parents do, the premier seems to take great pleasure is prolonging the strike, content that her child attends a pricy private school. What about the children that don't?
The courts have found, twice now, the government has acted illegally and the B.C. Liberals, using the might of the taxpayer, are holding children hostage to overturn the courts' decisions.
The government can stop this education nightmare without caving in to the BCTF's demands by using binding arbitration, but Clark and Fassbender want more. They want to destroy the BCTF completely and, by extension, they want to destroy B.C. education for their own perverse political agenda.
They are using school children as a human shield to get their way.
Malcolm Johnston
