SOME ONTARIO TEACHERS CONTINUE TO STEAL FROM THE TAXPAYERS

Yesterday's Waterloo Region Record spells it out clearly. Teachers by the thousands across Ontario are scrambling to use up their sick days before the school year ends within a week or two. "Using up sick days" is a euphimism for lieing, cheating and stealing from Ontario taxpayers who pay their salaries. The vast majority of these taxpayers get neither the pay, the benefits nor the time off that teachers get. Yesterday's article is titled "Supply teachers in demand, also on edge". Boy if and when we get another provincial Conservative government, guess what group is front and centre to get their goodies cut off? Ten to fifteen percent of teachers are absolutely going to screw the pooch for the rest of their colleagues. One of the best employment gigs out there and the greed and sense of entitlement, not to mention stupidity will put an end to it. And guess what? No one will have an ounce of sympathy when the axe comes down.

This article focuses on the stress for occasional teachers. They I can feel sorry for up to a point. It would indeed be stressful literally not knowing from day to day if you're working the next day. Also reading between the lines you can also see the favourtism and bias that goes on in prioritizing some teachers over others. The hypocrisy is not lost on me here. Once fully in the union as full time teachers everybody gets treated the same from good teachers to absolutely awful ones. Same raises, same respect, same contracts. This financial ripoff of the taxpayers should be criminal but it's not. Two teachers are getting paid while one bags the day off in order not to lose their "sick days". Most of us in the work force would be thrilled to get paid for even a few sick days a year. What a disgrace that Canadian workers are treated so inequitably.