Teachers and Curriculum

Teachers and Curriculum

Schools with full or partial taxpayer funding must hire certified teachers and teach the B.C. curriculum.

Membership in the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation is necessary for teachers hired by fully funded schools while for those teachers working at partially funded schools BCTF membership is voluntary.

The BCTF is opposed adamantly, consistently, philosophically, strategically and historically to legislation allowing the voluntary formation of up to 20 charter schools in B.C.

Type of K-12 School
Certified
Teachers
British
Columbia
Curriculum
BCTF
Membership
The Three K-12 Education Environments in British Columbia :
a)  B R I C K S   a n d   M O R T A R
Neighbourhood (School Board)
Yes
Yes
Necessary
Private (Most are average)

Yes

Yes

Voluntary
Private (A few are affluent)
Francophone
(Provincial School Board)
Yes
Yes
Necessary
Charter (2019 Petition)
Yes
Yes
No
b)  H O M E   S C H O O L I N G
School Act Sections 12 & 13
No
No
No
c)  A T - H O M E   S C H O O L I N G
Online Learning (School Board OL)
Yes
Yes
Necessary
Distributed Learning (Independent DL or IOL)
Yes
Yes
Voluntary

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