A Tri-City school official took the unprecedented step Tuesday of lobbying trustees to take a stand on a "burdensome" provincial policy that will require adult education teachers to photocopy and store hundreds of documents for evidence to justify student funding.
Sarah Husband, head of School District 43's continuing education program and the president of the BC School District Continuing Education Directors Association, asked local trustees to take a motion to the BC School Trustees Association (BCSTA) annual general meeting calling for a review of the new Distributed Learning Active Policy.
Husband said the new requirements work well for self-paced online programs but would be onerous and a poor use of resources if teachers of "face-to-face" programs had to record hundreds of documents for each student. She showed a photo of more than a dozen binders of materials for a single part-time teacher in one six-month period.
Attendance should continue to be used, Husband said, noting, "That would be a fairly good measure and funding should flow to students."
Trustees agreed to her request and board chair Melissa Hyndes will introduce the motion at BCSTA AGM this weekend.
