B.C. Teachers’ Federation leaders go to great lengths to say they’re listening to the concerns of First Nations people, but there is one subject on which they strongly disagree with Indigenous leaders.
Seven top B.C.’s First Nations chiefs and other Indigenous leaders recently sent the education minister a strong letter , obtained by Postmedia, spelling out how they are “alarmed” and “deeply disturbed” by the BCTF’s “targeted attack campaign” to cancel current provincewide testing of elementary students.
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“We see the rankings as being very damaging and dangerous to public education,” BCTF president Teri Mooring says in an October video. “The rankings serve no purpose except to perhaps promote private education.”
