Richmond - The Editor, Open letter to Premier Christy Clark, I am writing to you on behalf of the student bodies of Richmond high schools.I will be a graduating student next year at Hugh McRoberts and I cannot honestly say that I am in any way looking forward to resuming any scholarly activities this September.Why? The answer truly lies in your hands, and although you may be blinded by it, the rest of us aren't.First off, we, the students, have been reluctantly placed point-blank in the middle of the dispute between the BCTF and the BCPSEA.Throughout the past months, numerous days of educational hours were adjourned, our finals eliminated, and our provincial exams altered, meaning that, as of right now, 20 per cent of my sciences humaines 11 mark will be based solely off 55 multiple choice questions.Frankly, I have only one word to describe this - ludicrous. Maybe for some of the more advanced pupils, such occurrences do not present an arduous burden.But for the rest of the students who require the time and assistance of our educators, these alterations have been nothing but a slow and painful suffering. We are not here to teach ourselves our own courses - if we wanted to do that, we would have insisted upon homeschooling.This issue could have been resolved weeks ago. You could have been more open-minded during negotiations. Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. This conflict needs to change, right now.Kateryna ZaslavetsRichmond
