Education students being 'thrown under the bus' – Judge

A Supreme Court judge in Canada has said that education students on the cusp of graduating from universities are being "thrown under the bus" by a work-to-rule campaign being waged by Nova Scotia's public school teachers, writes Blair Rhodes for CBC News.

Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Jamie Campbell made the comments in a Halifax courtroom as he listened to arguments from five universities that say the Nova Scotia Teachers Union should be ordered to accept student teachers in the classroom. In order to graduate with a bachelor of education in Nova Scotia, student teachers must complete a minimum of 15 weeks of practicum.

But the union that represents the province's 9,300 public school teachers is refusing to allow those education students in classrooms as part of a work-to-rule campaign that began in December.
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