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| | BCTF > The year in review: Christy Clark: Unburdened by the need to consult (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Never one to be deterred by adverse polls, Clark, in late June, produced a Ministry of Education poll indicating a 74% satisfaction rate by parents and students, even boasting that up to 40% of teachers responded (the minister didn’t say how they responded) despite a BCTF boycott. |
 | | Clark, when accused of alienating teachers by shamelessly pandering to an antiteacher bias among some members of the general public, flatly denied it, using her now-famous "my-father-was-a-teacher" shtick, which, repeated ad nauseam, assumed vaudevillian overtones. |
 | | Clark, in perhaps the most revealing episode that lets us take the measure of the minister, responding to the concerns of a Lower Mainland superintendent of schools, that ongoing cutbacks would do "irreparable" harm to schools, is reported to have retorted, "That may be your opinion, but we have a mandate." |
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