NationStates Jolt Archive


Ontario's 9500 College Profs Screw Over Students

Kryozerkia
07-03-2006, 19:37
What? Yes, I am a biased bitch because I paid for my damn education and these greedy assholes walked off the job, refusing to accept a damn nice offer in return for NOT striking.

Students left in limbo (http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1141733241250&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154)

OPSEU spokesman David Cox said the key issue is the quality of education at the province’s 24 colleges.

Class sizes and teacher-student ratios are of particular concern, he said, adding the colleges’ latest offer did not address the issue.

“It’s not a question of money; we’ve got a nice salary and nobody’s complaining about that,” Prof. Rod Donne said as he picketed outside George Brown College’s downtown faculty of hospitality and tourism.

“We want smaller classes and really, less part-time teachers.”
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“I feel really bad for the international students the most,” said Donne, who teaches culinary training.

“Some people overseas are making quite a sacrifice to send one of their children here.”
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Rick Miner, chairman of the colleges’ committee of presidents, said in a statement that OPSEU had rejected a good offer.

He said colleges were willing to increase the top salary for faculty to more than $94,000, with no increase in workload.

Honestly? The class sizes are NOT that big of a deal. These people need to grow a damn thicker skin. Why? My biggest class has been like 30 students BEFORE the people start dropping the class; now, then you've got an average of 25 students per section and most profs have the same number if not less than a high school teacher in terms of students. Plus they don't HAVE to track down every little bastard who doesn't submit their work; call parents etc...

Seriously? These people need to get back to work.

I paid to go to school and I'm pissed off (despite that my tuition isn't that high). So... imagine how all the foreign students must feel...
QuentinTarantino
07-03-2006, 19:38
Thats what you get with private education
Kroisistan
07-03-2006, 19:40
Well if they keep this up, the college might just give you credit for your classes for free.

It would be the only fair thing for the students.
Kryozerkia
07-03-2006, 19:40
Thats what you get with private education
All post-secondary education in Ontario (and Canada) isn't public in the same way that elementary and secondary schooling are.
Kryozerkia
07-03-2006, 19:40
Well if they keep this up, the college might just give you credit for your classes for free.

It would be the only fair thing for the students.
And the chances of Seneca College doing that are... slim to nil.
Liverbreath
07-03-2006, 20:05
Thats what you get with private education
Ontario Public Service Employees Union are not public employee's?
Teh_pantless_hero
07-03-2006, 20:31
And the chances of Seneca College doing that are... slim to nil.
The chance of any school doing that are nada. They might give you credit on your tuition for when they make you take the classes again after the strike ends.
Von Witzleben
07-03-2006, 21:03
Then drop out to make a statement.
Michaelic France
07-03-2006, 21:15
It's funny... The state screws the teachers over and the teachers screw the schools over. Teachers are unappreciated. Just put up with their complaining for awhile and things will be better for everyone.