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Teachers can bring politics to class
court: B.C. Court of Appeal rules teachers may post their views, criticize government to parents
Teachers have the right to post politically charged notices in schools and criticize the provincial government over school funding during parent-teacher interviews, the B.C. Court of Appeal has ruled.
In a judgment released Wednesday, three judges upheld by a two-to-one margin a labour arbitrator’s finding that ordering teachers to stop talking politics in the schools was a violation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
“Their [teachers’] political expression benefits society as a whole even where the concerns arise out of a labour relations dispute,” Justice Carol Huddart wrote in the majority decision.
Susan Lambert, second vice-president of the B.C. Teachers’ Federation, said the ruling supports a basic tenet in Canadian society—the right to freedom of expression.
“It’s a basic Charter right and it’s a right held very dearly by Canadians,” Lambert said. “This decision has seen the importance of the case and has decided that school districts are subject to the Charter and that teachers have a guarantee of freedom of expression in the workplace.”
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