A Screw-Up!

Dear Friends,
Steve Paikin is as obsessed with Bill 115 as I am! Although, for different reasons, I'm sure.
The Agenda continues to invite series of "experts" to discuss what's going under with teachers, unions and school boards in Ontario. Tonight's discussion revolved around extracurricular activities, emphasizing the absence of a definition for "public school teacher!"
The last thing I wanted to do on the first evening of spring, (my New Year) was to throw my remote control at Earl Manners, adorning my TV screen, and screaming profanities! The ex-unionist, not only had a lot to get off his chest about his past calling, but he also felt compelled to declare that a teacher's job shouldn't begin and end with the bell! Clearly, he hasn't been in a school lately, otherwise he would've known that even during "withdrawal of voluntary activities," teachers' day doesn't begin and end with the sound of the bell. 
Unless policy makers spend a few six-figure numbers to review the Education Act, itemizing teacher's responsibilities clearly, in plain English, all the experts, including teachers, can do, is talk subjectively, like hamsters on spinning wheels — going nowhere!
Since we ourselves are not sure of our legal job description, the definition of the word "volunteerism" remains open to interpretation. Thus, more and more schools are putting their own spin on it, giving their students what they deem "meaningful," which in turn creates more controversy and heated, but dead-end, discussions. 
Let's call a spade a spade! The former Ontario government screwed up! It decided to fix what was not broken! Was really a two percent raise or a few extra sick-leave days worth all this commotion?!  
As we say in Farsi, one hundred wise men cannot take out the stone that one idiot throws in the well! Accepted and filed! What have you accepted and filed today?