Bullying in schools wouldn't be such an issue

if Teachers and Unions didn't model it so darn well.

Greg Pietersma, chairman of eastern Ontario’s Upper Canada District School Board, said that a union steward indicated to one of his high-school principals that the union was encouraging teachers to “shun” colleagues who engaged in voluntary activities. 

Teachers: if your Masters, the union, say no don't do any extra curricular activities then I guess you best  do as your told or else.

Some Ontario teachers are breaking ranks and resuming their participation in school sports teams and clubs, but those who do so are coming under pressure from their peers.
This small group of teachers say they no longer want to hurt their students by withdrawing from extracurricular activities, as advised by the unions representing elementary and high-school teachers working for public school boards.

Educators told The Globe and Mail that as a result, colleagues have put notes in their mailboxes, threatened to shun them and created e-mail addresses where they can anonymously report teachers who give time to school clubs, sports and other activities outside the classroom.

Well bully for them I say, congratulations for having a free thought about you do with your own time.

The sad part is that in Ontario we are a public system, Private schools are almost unaffordable for anyone .

Bring on the voucher system, break a monopoly, give families a choice and cripple a union. After all it's for the children. :O)