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Lambert: no kind words for Abbott
VANCOUVER/CKNW (AM980)
TOM MARK | Email news tips to tmark@cknw.com
8/30/2012

BC Teacher's Federation President Susan Lambert isn't going to miss George Abbott.

Speaking with CKNW's Bill Good, Lambert said he's been part of what she called the Liberal's chronic systemic underfunding of education.

"Minister Abbott  used his office, his term as Minister of Education, to continue the systemic starving of public education and on top of that to attack teachers."

Lambert says Abbott went after the teacher's college, imposed net-zero and ensured the working and learning conditions of teachers and students worsened over his term.

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  1. Chuck M posted on 08/30/2012 10:01 AM
    This diatribe does not surprise me. It seems Ms. Lambert does not get it. When will the BCTF wake up and see what everyone else is going through. Worsening working conditions? Give me a break!
    Contrary to what she thinks, George was acting on behalf of all of us and attempting to control costs.
    1. JD_9814 posted on 08/30/2012 10:06 PM
      @Chuck M Right, it's not Lamber'ts place to bring public awareness to education issues, that is best left to trustworthy politicians who we can trust to tell the truth about the state of education in BC.
  2. YourAmericanMaster posted on 08/30/2012 10:55 AM
    With the student population declining and a abundance of teachers without work we need a system overhaul!!
  3. noparty posted on 08/30/2012 11:00 AM
    Ms. Lambert seems to think that the only way to improve the education system is to give more $$$$ to the teachers. Most teachers that I hear complaining are saying that what is needed is more resources (teachers) in the system to handle the special needs problems of a lot of the students. This could be quite easily done by holding the line on compensation now being paid and put that money toward trying to solve the problem of class composition, I think most teachers would prefer that to a salary increase. I don' think we can afford to have it both ways.
    1. Ron_26 posted on 08/30/2012 11:19 AM
      @noparty Her response to you would probably be "Oh. I don't have that information in front of me."
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  4. Ron_26 posted on 08/30/2012 11:10 AM
    Interesting that I can't remember him personally attacking her, yet she consistently comes at him swinging. Maybe she was taught to stomp and whine until she get's her way. Mr Abbott has class.
    1. YourAmericanMaster posted on 08/30/2012 12:57 PM
      @Ron_26 I work in the public sector and the women constantly nag, yell, scream, cry like a bunch of teenagers and it makes me sick being the only male in the department. I also end up doing the same amount of work as any 3 women colleges of mine combined without breaking a sweat, yet we all get the same pay, what a bunch of b.s.
    2. commonsense posted on 08/30/2012 06:19 PM
      @Ron_26 Sometimes I expected her to come out saying "Well, Mr Abbott is a big stinky poo!"
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  5. commonsense posted on 08/30/2012 11:11 AM
    When will Lambert just shut up for a minute and understand where the money comes from for her union. Does she want to pay more taxes? Does she want to see money pulled from health, higher ed or social services instead? The union encouraged their members to vote away the HST which could have benefited her union. Biting the hand that feeds, and then expecting them to bend over and grill them a better steak.
  6. KenL_6250 posted on 08/30/2012 11:25 AM
    I agree with Abbott not running but also have to get rid of this Lambert and union also, we must get rid of Yamamotto and foreign students in BC Universities also!
  7. RoseH_1028 posted on 08/30/2012 11:27 AM
    Ms. Lambert needs to ride off into the sunsit and enjoy her huge pension that we all paid for. I am sure the union will be much better off without her. She is too confrontational. It is her way or no way. She doesn't understand the "no money" concept.
    Years ago people wanted gov't. jobs for job security. Now they want them for the fat pensions that they pillage off the taxpayers. It is just greed.
  8. speakup posted on 08/30/2012 11:41 AM
    George Abbott could have easily caved into the teacher's bully tactics, BS mob mentality and major fear mongering and manipulation
    -especially since he was headed towards the retirement-fund door anyway-
    but he towed the line and kept cool, calm carried on....
    and used a rarely used political tool - common sense.
    Good job George - thank you!

    Let's hope the next Minister of Education has the same sense of common sense and fairness to the students and tax payers of this broken province.
    Let's hope the BCTF does not slot their own Union-Kisser into that position!
    1. noparty posted on 08/30/2012 12:21 PM
      @speakup You can be sure if the NDP forms the next Govt. the will pay back the BCTF with a pro union minister!
  9. AlT posted on 08/30/2012 03:14 PM
    George Abbott has done a very good job for the citizens of BC. There is only one taxpayer. Every public sector complains of chronic underfunding. I agree teachers should have adequate resources in the classroom. However,declining enrollment should enable teachers to allocate more time to their students. I understand Surrey is the only school district with expanding enrollment. The BCTF has always been a very militaristic group controlled by a cabal of radical unionists and I expect that that will continue into the next government mandate. We should watch carefully how an NDP government is treated by the BCTF.
  10. WilliamS_3961 posted on 08/30/2012 04:06 PM
    Ms. Lambert's mantra "We are all equal but Teachers are just a little bit more equal" really does become tiring.
  11. ChrisM_18 posted on 08/30/2012 04:48 PM
    Intelligent BC'ers ......no kind words for Lambert

    Ms Lambert needs to take up knitting and grandmothering - her militant stance has only hurt the BCTF
  12. RegA [deleted] posted on 08/30/2012 04:54 PM
    I am afraid, Ms. Lambert is just a double bagging(pension and union wages), over the hill, pretty much senile old teacher, that has her head NOT on her shoulders. I have a brilliant 16 year old daughter, and her Math mark, because we went to Mexico last winter for a week, (a penalty), went from about a 94% average to 62%. Even another math teacher yanked her boy out of his class, and put him on correspondence. Ms Lambert condones nit wits like this dud. She is a brain washed old women that should face reality, in these times. Cost my kid, the better part of a $1000 bursary thanks to an inept teacher, with his head next to Ms Lamberts.
    1. RegA [deleted] posted on 08/30/2012 04:56 PM
      @RegA [deleted] I forgot to mention, my daughter thrives on Math and Science, and got 94% on her government exam, making the teacher, and a condoning Ms. Lambert appear to be fools.
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  13. StephenG_3 posted on 08/30/2012 08:03 PM
    The BCTF is a useless union whose militancy can not be tolerated any longer.
  14. JD_9814 posted on 08/30/2012 09:58 PM
    It may well be Lambert needs to go, but Abbott definitely has not served education well over his term
    1. Chuck M posted on 08/31/2012 08:26 AM
      @JD_9814 George has served his term as Education Minister very well. He has stood up to bullying tactics used by the TF and has managed to hold his ground, on our behalf I may add.

      Ms. Lambert on the other hand has done nothing to move the TF forward. She is using rhetoric and nonsensical demands on behalf of the union(?) to try to forward their demands?

      I am afraid in these times of tight moneytheir stance does absolutely nothing for them. They have distanced themselves from the rest of the public and she has made herself look like someone who is out of touch with reality, way out of touch.

      Way to go George! Thank you for your stance and thank you for the work you have done for the citizens of British Columbia. You, thank God are not out of touch.
  15. Jartann posted on 08/31/2012 09:03 AM
    The BCTF is out of touch with reality. There are 55,000 fewer students-Hello? Does this not matter. Well, not to the beaks in the trough whiners at the BCTF.

    As we should have expected, people like Lambert launch personal attacks, Abbott tried to keep it professional. That is what the entitlement mentality that Lambert advances does to people. She merely recites the mantra that education is "underfunded" (aren't we all "underfunded") and the Liberals are just big meanies who hate students. She could care less about students. She wants money and benefits for the BCTF membership, nothing more nothing less, and students and parents can just get stuffed.

    Oohhh..........it's all for the kids! What nonsense.
  16. SlimP_9860 posted on 08/31/2012 04:18 PM
    Underfunding public education and public healthcare is part of the right wing agenda of conservative governments because it forces the creation of private services in order to compensate.
    Susan Lambert does her job well, steady and strong, regardless of which way the wind is blowing that day because that's how ethical people are. George Abbott did his job as well as he could, under the circumstances. He knows it's just going to get worse from here.

    Both would make good bobble-heads for the rear window of the car. Two thumbs up.
  17. joes_2868 posted on 09/02/2012 06:55 PM
    She watches a lot of Twilight Zone shows. Never explains to us why the Nova Scotia Teachers Federation has asked for the NDP Minister of Education to resign. Too bad, she thinks that Adrian Dix will give her cake and let her eat it too. Does not look around her, or does any research to see that all the problems she think she has is exactly now happening all around her. Unbelievable, but true!
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