🧵re some new @VSB39 shenanigans that have a school community understandably up in arms. #vanpoli #vanre #bced 1. The VSB sent Ideal Mini School parents a letter yesterday telling them the school has to move to Churchill Secondary, since Laurier Elem is bursting at the seams. But wait, Laurier had an annex to accommodate more students but it was CLOSED in 2017 and leased out.

1. Thank you all for the outpouring of love and support, and for sharing your memories of Lee. He was, indeed, a good, kind and brilliant man. He was the best husband I could ever have dreamed of having and a wonderful, wise and loving father to Britta, Mary and Frank. /2 2. I am so grateful to have had over 30 years with Lee at my side. I wish we could have had more time, but quality makes up for quantity. Maybe. He was truly my soulmate and best friend. We'd spent the entire pandemic together, keeping each other safe. /3

1. After a year of days that are pretty much all the same. I solved a small mystery, thanks to ocean currents and tides that washed a phone in a waterproof case up on the beach in front of our house in the Gulf Islands. 2. We get a lot of plastic and styrofoam garbage washing up on this pretty little beach, so I get down there most days and pick up as much as I can and get it recycled or otherwise disposed of. Most it's water bottles, zip loc bags, chunks of styrofoam from old docks, etc.

1. Following along with tonight's VSB Student Learning and Wellbeing Ctte which is streaming online. First speaker up is Dr. Mary Kestler, a parents and infectious disease specialist who is asking for @VSB39 secondary schools to return to full-time instruction. .../2 2. From Dr Kestler's slide deck #bced

1. Looks like @Rob_Fleming is choosing not to answer all the questions we posted here yesterday so I'll go ahead and share the back-to-school plan improvements that I think need to be made before September. Here goes .../2 #bced 2. Delay the student start date to Sept 14 at the earliest to give school staff time to work out classroom organization, timetables and figure out how learning cohorts will function. ../3

1. My inboxes runneth over this morning with messages from teachers about being directed to work onsite at schools and being denied work-from-home accommodations as school districts gear up for partial re-opening on June 1. #bced /2 2. Over sixty and worried about the risks of working in a primary classroom? Too bad. You have to go back. Live with an elderly or immunocompromised relative? Suck it up buttercup, your school district HR department says you're coming back to class next week. #bced

1. I spent this morning listening to an audio recording of last's night heated #Seycove Secondary PAC meeting in @NVSD44 regarding the board's decision last week to approve "in principle" an elite Hockey Academy at their school. Board was told PAC had already been consulted #bced 2. This appears to be a classic case of management not giving the board accurate information while asking for it to approve something controversial. The School Act requires boards to consult with PAC and have demand for the program. Does not appear to be local demand for program.

1. Regardless of which side of the debate you’re on re #Wetsuwenten, the demonstration/blockade (or whatever you want to call it) at the legislature yesterday did what demonstrations are supposed to do -raise awareness and apply pressure to power. 2. It got a massive amount of attention and has many asking what this complex dispute is about. In particular, it may have inspired some of the major media outlets to dig past the “law and order” stuff to actually explain what this is all about.

1. Please bear with me for a #bced thread, as I try to make sense of the dispute over what the govt/employer side is calling "changes" and what the @bctf says are concessions at the bargaining table, regarding class size and composition #bcpol 2. My understanding is that the govt/employer (represented by the BC Public School Employers' Assn - "BCPSEA") is proposing class size and composition language that would be applied to all school districts, and that this is a change, not a concession, to current language.