A group fighting for teachers during the recent contract dispute with government continues their efforts.
Nova Scotia Parents For Teachers started as a Facebook group for people to voice their concerns and talk about their experience with the province’s education system.
They’ve since created a web page to continue their work.
One of the founders of the group, Larry Haiven says they plan to hold government to account.
“So there is a certain amount of misinformation going on. When people were paying attention, we had an easier time busting those myths, but some of those myths are quite persistent. So we try and provide a page where we correct all the various myths.”
Twenty thousand people became members of the Nova Scotia Parents For Teachers Facebook group during the labour unrest.
Haiven says the job action has helped make people more aware of classroom issues.
“A number of people who might not have been involved in this issue had it not arisen, have become, kind of, experts in it. They’ve educated themselves.”
Haiven says they are always looking for more volunteers.
He says they’ve launched the website to continue to inform the public as well as to hold the government to their commitments.