Attendance management in BC's K-12 public education system / : Attendance management in British Columbia's K-12 public education system

This appears unlikely, however, in view of the motion passed by the May 2015 BCTF Representative Assembly: Attendance Management programs That the BCTF take action against the implementation of Attendance Management programs by: 1. continuing to emphasize to government the real stressors in teaching and the need for meaningful supports that foster healthy workplaces and good employee/employer rela [...] Consider, for instance, the following statements from page 45 of the Service Delivery Project Phase 1 report: The work of the employees in the K–12 sector is very important and highly respected by the Working Group and these staff should be supported to do that work in a healthy and safe environment The work in the sector is complex, with high expectations for outcomes and cause for a stressful wo [...] In terms of arthritis, 5.7% of women and 3.9% of men suffered from arthritis in the 26–44 age group, but 23.9% of women and 16.8% of men suffered from the same disease in the 45–64 age group. [...] Perhaps this might have been one of the areas of data collection to have been initiated prior to any policy changes, but the issue of changing teacher demographics joins a growing list of factors not considered by BCPSEA, the Ministry of Education, or the BC government prior to mandating a province-wide policy purporting to address a problem without ascertaining the dimensions of the issue through [...] The costs of implementing attendance management are significant, and may not result in savings At a time of continued cuts to BC’s K–12 public education system, the initial costs of implementing attendance management across the province of BC to date are a minimum of $3.7M.