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Shaun Kalley Profile picture
@shaunkalley
Feb 28, 2019 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
1/ Last night @VanDPAC participated in the first VSB Facilities Planning Committee meeting specifically on the draft #LRFP. We mostly talked about general concerns, emphasizing the need to make sure that school communities are engaged with and cared for during this process.
2/ @VanDPAC's meeting next Thursday (March 7th) is an opportunity for parents to engage with VSB staff and trustees, and also to shape the position(s) that DPAC will take forward for when we engage in the deeper issues at the next Committee meeting and in other conversations. Image
3/ I would especially encourage parents and PAC reps from schools that are studied in the #LRFP to attend to provide their feedback, share their knowledge of how their schools are actually used, and to articulate how their schools fit into their communities.

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Sep 28, 2020
1/ Let's talk about the @VSB39 LRFP and capacity targets. In particular, let's touch on the 2016 LRFP, what was in place before, and where we've ended up since, including the 2019 draft LRFP.
2/ The main purpose of the 2016 LRFP was to present a plan to meet the 95% capacity target set by the Ministry. That target was met with immense opposition with the Board even passing a motion confirming the target but "not because it will support our education mission".
3/ That motion was brought forward by current Board Chair @janetrfraser and, from the current Board, was voted in favour by both her and @awong39 but opposed, not surprisingly, by @Frasergb.
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Sep 26, 2020
1/ Thank you to @VanDPAC for making the @VSB39 LRFP the topic of their meeting this last Thursday. It is very clear that this is a complicated issue with a sordid history that has major implications for the school district for many years.
2/ It is also clear that there is a lot of obfuscation going on behind the scenes and that many foundational questions will not be answered in time for a comprehensive discussion. In particular, the trustees need to demonstrate leadership and provide clear guiding principles.
3/ I am particularly disappointed that the LRFP is still being conflated with the SMP. The next phase of "consultation" seems geared to fully blur that line; designing a seismically safe school is not the same as engaging in long-term, system-wide visioning.
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Aug 30, 2020
1/ While back to school is, of course, top of everyone's minds, we can't forget that there is other work still to be done. At the VSB, two such areas are anti-racism and the Long-Range Facilities Plan (LRFP).
2/ On the former, I'm really disappointed that trustees chose to not take any further action re: the June 22nd comments by Fraser Ballantyne other than allowing him to reduce his responsibilities. I would like to hear publicly from any trustee how that is acceptable to them.
3/ On the latter, I'm very fearful that we're going to be presented with a new draft LRFP very soon that will simply be a restatement of the 2019 draft. We need trustees to show leadership and ask for key questions to be answered *before* we receive a new draft.
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Aug 23, 2020
1/ To state my bias up front: I consider @andrealsinclair a friend and she was an advisor and mentor to me while I was on the @VanDPAC executive. She is FAR better at playing this game than I am, and I think we're lucky to have her steering @BCCPAC.
2/ So let me say something that needs saying: there's no way in hell she didn't raise parent concerns about the reopening plan while it was being developed. The way that Andrea works is to present criticism in private and support in public, so we only see the latter.
3/ But I trust that the concerns were presented AND that they were heard because Andrea has worked very hard on behalf of BCCPAC to build the right relationships and she knows how to make sure that what needs to be said is heard.
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Jun 29, 2020
1/ Reading the @VSB39 Board Policy Handbook on how an official complaint against a trustee is handled is making my head spin. An official complaint has to be made by another trustee, and, if the complaint proceeds, the complainant is essentially required to prosecute the case.
2/ Moreover, the complainant is excluded from deliberations, including the drafting of resolutions. This is a major departure from Robert's Rules in which managers representing, and who are members of, the body make the case, e.g., the House managers in the impeachment hearings.
3/ This pitting of two trustees against each other and denying the trustee who is not the subject of the complaint the right to be part of the deliberative process is wrong and needs to be addressed by a policy change. But, until that happens, the policy is what it is.
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Mar 9, 2020
1/ We've heard the Ministry of Education say there are 10,000 empty seats in the Vancouver School District. Others have pointed out, correctly, I think, that this has been, and continues to be, coded language for closing schools and possibly selling land.
2/ However, rather than focusing on how we're going to deal with these 10,000 empty seats, maybe the first question we should be asking ourselves is: how many "empty seats" do we need to effectively provide the educational services that kids need?
3/ The VSB used to say, "Schools operating at 90% capacity are considered to be operating at a reasonable level." That number was based on educational reasoning. It afforded schools the flexibility to deal with "emergent educational needs" and to provide space...
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