Hope everyone has a restful long weekend before we start back and aren’t working too hard to prepare our schools for our amazing students!

We having an amazing relationship with a major builder who donated $ so we can upgrade our tech classes with tools, safety equipment and supplies for our students. They will benefit down the road by having more skilled employees & our students will benefit later too.

We don’t want our teachers having to tell their students today’s lesson was brought to you by Geico 🦎🤣. No disrespect to the corporations that donate & partners who fill these gaps in education. It is appreciated but it shouldn’t be this way.

When you are given a budget that is only expected to get back to the basics you are only going to get basics. Our students, families & communities deserve and need more than basics. You need to let your MPP know & vote. To build a strong society we need strong public ed

We need more EAs, CYW/Cs, Teachers to close gaps in learning & behaviour & mental health. We need social workers, psychologists, speech, hearing + more
staff to support our students. We need central staff to support equity, achievement & wellbeing.

If you watch the meetings you will hear about cuts for ex to social work & other staff that support well-being. We can’t get to “the basics” as we serve communities that need beyond the basics. We need prof services/spec ed

But my ad filled first two meetings is nothing compared to listening to our board budget meetings & seeing the on the ground impact. I encourage everyone to watch one from their board this year. Trustees & Senior staff trying to decide what items need to be cut due to $ cuts

An insurance company was given time to speak at both, as well as 15+ shout outs during the meeting. The director address explained without them the meeting wouldn’t have been possible due to budget cuts.