Alberta Teachers’ Association President, Jason Schilling, discusses the provincial governement’s investments in school construction with Alberta Primetime host Michael Higgins.
This interview has been edited for clarity and length.
Michael Higgins: The organizer of an Edmonton rally has claimed parental rights are under threat. “As long as a teacher teaches the Alberta curriculum, they’re okay, however, sometimes they add in extra things, and some of those things are making parents uncomfortable.”
How do you respond to a comment like that one from a protest that was essentially on the Alberta Teachers’ Association’s doorstep?
Jason Schilling: Everything that a teacher would teach in school is online. The curriculum is online, resources are vetted by government and school boards, and those are the materials that teachers use in their classrooms.
As I said that day, and I will say it again and again, if there is an issue that someone might have, phone the school, talk to the teacher, talk to the principal at that …