BC is experiencing a teacher's shortage, and with the cold and flu season approaching the situation could be much worse.
Glen Hansman, President, BC Teachers' Federation says the slow pace of recruitment in several school districts is starting to affect students' educational programs and he says something needs to be done.
"A tenth of the school year has come and gone, all of September, and we still have several hundred jobs that haven't been filled. We've got children and youth in schools in Vancouver and elsewhere around the province that have yet to have a teacher assigned to them, or at least not the person who will be with them for the full year. There is a bit of that that happens every September, but not to the extent we have seen this year."
Hansman says the BCTF is eager to work with the new BC government, school districts and the BC Public School Employer's Association to implement new strategies to deal with the current teacher shortage.