While surveys can help school districts define their priorities, they also sometimes land trustees in hot water by seemingly pitting students’ educational needs against each other.
Katie Hyslop reports. #bced
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Wow. Entire school board fired by Ministry of Education. President of Camosun College appointed as single trustee replacement until Fall 2026 elections.
#BCEd #Police #RCMP #BCPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/victoria-school-board-fired-1.7446178
CBCB.C. fires Victoria School Board over ban on police in schools | CBC NewsBritish Columbia's education minister has fired the entire Victoria School Board in a dispute over a safety plan where the board barred police from schools except in emergencies.
A good read about #dyslexia and the public #school system in #britishcolumbia
#bcpoli #bced #education #NDP #BCNDP
https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/12/13/BC-Takes-Steps-Address-Dyslexia/
Why do David Eby’s freshly re-elected BCNDP, whose Health Minister swiftly promised my BCED K-12 wife Novavax availability in the election lead up months ago, now refuse to even respond to her emails?
Must we join Elon’s right wing hate site just to communicate with our out of touch BC govt!?
Politicians like David Eby deflate the BCNDP’s legitimacy by making false promises like this in an attempt to mislead voters.
Does Eby think we voted BCNDP because we enjoy having to beg the apathetic Bonnie Henry and Adrian Dix for basic means of covid mitigation?
David Eby’s campaign clearly lied to us about providing Novavax access (just as John Horgan’s BCNDP feigned support for TMX opposition in the 2016 election) simply to steal our votes. As soon as they have them, they toss our concerns aside and abandon us.
Power corrupts, and re-elected govts often forget that those whose voted them back in, did so for good reasons. To ignore those reasons is to ignore our democratic voices.
ALL in BC should have equal access to covid vaccines. Pfizer is not an viable option for many vulnerable.
Those who must take Novavax for health reasons should not be, yet again, abandoned by Bonnie Henry’s BCNDP.
We demand access to Novavax now or Eby and his cronies can expect a landslide Conservative win next election in BC.
All my future votes in this province will go to the Greens regardless of threat from the magaCons.
I just cannot continue wasting my vote on this flip flopping, out of touch BCNDP.
They ignore covid, they ignore long covid, they ignore Novavax requests from teachers, they ignore covid transmission in hospitals, they ignore the societal damage this unmitigated pandemic is reeking on our schools and communities.
All of us abandoned to a virus by their well paid, capitalist, economy focused health officials.
This BCNDP govt has embraced societal sickness and now refuses to provide viable vaccine options. Disgraceful politicking. Vote them out.
B.C.’s French school district is suing the province. Again. Katie Hyslop reports how we got here. 
Where is our ‘effin #Novavax access #BCNDP? Adrian Dix promised my #immunocompromised #bced wife in the lead up to the election we would have access to Novavax. Why does this covid minimizing bcndp now fail to deliver on novavax and continue to stay silent on masking, long covid and covid awareness?
Was this just another of BCNDP false promises to garner votes, immediately cast aside by Bonnie Henry once you won?
What a completely pitiful government this BCNDP has been on Covid. Truly uninspiring, complacent to sickness and full of Bonnie Henry’s gaslighting.
Perhaps Eby and the rest of his bcndp are truly just full of bs, we already know Henry and Dix are.
Sure looks like Eby’s bcndp government has embraced gross negligence as their sole covid response. Nothing but a bunch of slimy Great Barrington crooks in suits. Sickening, pun intended.
#falsepromises #flipflops #covid19bc #sitec #tmx #BCpoli #cdnpoli #CovidIsNotOver
#BCNDPsucks #BCHealthsucks
#BCCDCsucks
#GovernmentTrash #Corrupt #Useless #grossnegligence #bonniehenry #gbd
My wife is an #immunocompromised #k12 #bced teacher who has yet to be vaccinated in BC this respiratory season despite her pleading to our BCNDP govt for access to #novavax.
She had to send another snifling, sneezing child home from her school recently. It seems parents have been knowingly sending their kids in sick and unmasked again. Quite upsetting.
Her covid conscious principal decided to send out a letter to the whole school, reminding them, yet again, not to send their kids in sick.
This should have been Dr. Bonnie Henry’s job to educate awareness and prevention, instead she gets a three figure salary to spread the covid immunity misinformation which emboldens these parents currently ignoring covid.
My wife has also been the only teacher masking for months at her new school. Recently, two other teachers remarked on her mask and began masking themselves after seeing her set an example.
This too could have been our Lead Health Official’s achievement; to inspire masking rather than pretending an ethical request is nothing but a personal restriction.
We deserve Public Health Leaders in Canada who educate and inspire action on covid rather than repeatedly encouraging complacency with constant sickness.
Dr. Bonnie Henry is paid with our tax dollars to spin lies which deceive and gaslight those few still listening.
We desperately need new public health officials in Canada. Officials who are covid conscious and aware of the havoc this virus is reeking on our communities, our province and our country.
Dr. Bonnie Henry has long since surrendered to this virus and given up on basic covid prevention for personal comfort.
Our current “health leaders” will never be able to inspire hope after publicly accepting defeat and embracing hopelessness as our new norm.
The sooner Health Leaders like Dr. Bonnie Henry and Adrian Dix are replaced, the sooner we in BC and Canada can truly start working towards a safer, healthier, more covid conscious pandemic life.
#FireTheDoctor #HireATeacher #foryourhealth
#bcpoli #bcndp #CovidIsNotOver #COVIDisAirborne #cleanair #masking #MakeSchoolsSafe #BonnieHenry #covidminimiser #covid19bc #cdnpoli
Schools are safe they say, kids don't get sick, kids don't spread, everything is fine - no masks or filtered air required, carry on and shut up
This is the BC school absentee numbers for 2022 - and it's insane, it was like pulling teeth to get the data through FOI - Government does not want this information public, they fight against release
Anecdotally, it's worse now.
Film festival facilitators are now dealing with teachers who are afraid to book their program because of possible backlash from parents, says Gavin Somers, education director for Out on Screen. 
Look at the terrible air quality near this school in #NazkoValleyBC 
#RachnaSinghNDP please reach out to us. We can help provide schools RIGHT NOW with easy, affordable tools to improve the #IAQ here and in all #BCed schools, and make them safe for students & school workers.
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This is so disheartening. #HealthCanada just continues to drop the ball on combatting #covid.
This is beyond infuriating, and it’s all because of shady deals #Canada made with #Pfizer and #Moderna.
#Novavax is the only vaccine my #immunocompromised #bced k-12 wife can take without heart palpitations. It’s also the only vaccine I will take period due to health complications with the others.
Health Canada has also always made Novavax difficult to get. Despite living in busy Burnaby, we regularly had to drive to Surrey or the back of Port Coquitlam to get a dose.
They always made it a long awkward drive because they wanted us to choose moderna or pfizer out of laziness. The other “govt preferred” options were always available at the Walmart 5 minutes away.
They have now decided to force us into these other options or simply not get vaccinated at all.
Looks like my #bced partner and I will not be vaccinated this fall due to #HeathCanada’s careless decision to forget about us again.
I have absolutely no faith this #bcndp #bcgov will care about this either. Wouldn’t be surprised if this decision came directly from #BonnieHenry herself. They have abandoned the vulnerable yet again.
I now wonder if we will ever get vaccinated in Canada again. Looks like we will have to start traveling to the #US just to get proper coverage. Shame on #HealthCanada.
They should all be fired and replaced by #vulnerable people who actually still care to fight this pandemic with ALL tools available.
This decision by Health Canada will only result in more sickness and death.
#Masks are now our only line of defence, how long before they take those away?
#bcpoli #unvaccinated #cdnpoli #cdnhealth #CovidIsNotOver #MakeSchoolsSafe
The Tyee · Enrolment Is Up. Why Are BC Schools Still Facing Budget Cuts? | The Tyee
As Teaching Support Staff Union members chanted, waved signs and banged drumsticks, they didn’t know they were being secretly taped by private investigators hired by Simon Fraser University.
@zakvescera reports. With the Investigative Journalism Foundation. #bclab #bced
An advocacy group trying to increase the number of highly skilled resident doctors who can apply to work in British Columbia says it’s “two down, three to go” when it comes to hitting its goal.
@michelle_gamage reports. #bclab #bced
The Tyee · What’s Up with BC’s Two-Stream Medical Residency System? | The Tyee
One family’s story reveals a mismatch between how authorities investigate and how kids process violent trauma.
Katie Hyslop reports. #bced
New restrictions to the international student boom were a long time coming. Here’s how they’ll affect students and budgets. Labour reporter @zakvescera and education reporter Katie Hyslop report. #BCLab #BCEd 
The Tyee · Deflating BC’s International Student Boom | The Tyee
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How are kids with dyslexia doing? Don’t ask B.C.
The province doesn’t track or specifically support students with the most common learning disability.
Katie Hyslop reports. #BCEd
The Tyee · BC Doesn’t Know How Kids with Dyslexia Are Doing in School | The Tyee