📣 @bccla & @PolicingFreeSch call to the province of BC to immediately end all police-in-school programs #BCPoli #BCed #YYJPoli #BCLab #PoliceFreeSchools #PolicingFreeSchools #PolicingFreeSchoolsBC #PolicingFreeSchoolsCA #CDNPoli #CDNEd #CDNLab

It's all coming from #quebec and the tech grifters. #bced #bcpoli #ottawa

Last week, BCSTA brought together Board Chairs from school districts across British Columbia to connect on a range of key priorities: 📅 Upcoming BCSTA events 🎓 Professional development for trustees, including the Trustee Learning Program 📋 Policy review developments 💼 BCSTA's 2027 Budget Submission 🗳️ Resources and support for the upcoming school trustee elections BCSTA's relationship with Board Chairs across the province allows us to ensure that boards of education remain informed and supported and have access to the resources and developments that matter to their work in public education. We appreciate the time Board Chairs dedicated to joining us and look forward to continued collaboration in the months ahead. #Bced #Bcpoli #SchoolTrustees #PublicEducation

Dearest #bctf, Why is a Union of Champions of Facts in Context cowed by #climate alarm? Kids feeling hopeless because even #bced adds fear from the sky from co2 which isn't a problem for anything any where for any reason. #UBC? #UVic? Why do you remain beholden to the Vested Interests pushing non-sense for #carbontax? #bcpoli? #cdnpoli? All the Parties support alarm, the media supports alarm, our public institutions support alarm. Fact show nothing un-natural is happening from co2 or methane or the sky. #BCUnion fails Canada. #CUPE? #UNifor? #bcgeu? Your Leadership is complicit.

📣 @bccla & @PolicingFreeSch call to the province of BC to immediately end all police-in-school programs #BCPoli #BCed #YYJPoli #BCLab #PoliceFreeSchools #PolicingFreeSchools #PolicingFreeSchoolsBC #PolicingFreeSchoolsCA #CDNPoli #CDNEd #CDNLab

Oh look. This person is going after public schools now. #bced

(In fairness to the trustees, the change to the new ward based system didn't happen until AFTER the province had fired them ostensibly over the safety plan drama. In fact, a reasonable person might wonder how long the province had wanted to make the change away from an at-large voting system (which elected these trustees in 2022) towards a ward based system? Were the existing trustees standing in the way? Most of the public fight about all of this has been about police in schools, but the most significant democratic policy change made post-firing was how the trustees themselves get elected. Perhaps all of us should have paid much closer attention to that correlation... #bced)

Why is this important? SD61 has spent more than a year building a new system in which Victoria and Saanich will have two trustees, with other member municipalities and each of the Esquimalt and Songhees nations also getting one elected trustee seat (for nine seats in total). Information sessions have already been held, educating prospective candidates as to how the new ward system will work. The transition to that new system has suddenly been thrown into doubt with aspersions cast over the validity of the process undertaken to create it. That's a big deal... #bced

Superintendent of schools @WhittenDeb is notably absent at the first public meeting of the reinstated @sd61schools board. #bced

Watching the first live @sd61schools meeting of the un-fired board of education. It's the first time we've seen them live at the School District Office and they seem to be having problems with (four different?) sign language interpreters being able to hear the room. Ok. #bced

I'm in Victoria to cheer on the reinstated @sd61schools trustees at their first public meeting since they got their jobs back! #bced

Why is he doing nothing about curricula and teaching practices, especially in high schools? Teacher Talker on X: A few truth bombs from a salty old teacher. As we head back into BC classrooms this week, some thoughts about the unintended consequences of systemic changes at high school level & the potential short-term & long-term consequences it is having on students’ habits & behaviours. 1. Late Work: teachers are obliged to take student work whenever they submit it, even months later. We cannot take marks off for lateness, nor can we issue a zero. The rationale is that we should not be penalizing learning because of poor habits or behaviour. The unintended consequence of late work policies is some students have warped sense of deadlines; they procrastinate, wait until others get their work back, copy it & submit as their own, & others will binge submit 8-10 assignments all at once. Very stressful for teachers, too. 2. Proficiency Scale: instead of grades, we have “emerging, developing, proficient, extending” on assignments & jrs on report cards, too. This is meant to be less subjective than marks but ends up more so as “extending” becomes unattainable & most marks are proficient-clumped. And teachers & senior students are in a nebulous squeeze box of weirdness. We have to use PS scale for assessment while fully understanding that no university, local or international, accepts it, and that percentages matter very much for post-secondary.  And that’s not changing. Students know the gig-Jr students now say, “Just don’t hand it in. They can’t fail us anymore.” Which is actually pretty accurate. A student has to pretty much hand in nothing to fail a class. Teachers are pressured to push students through even if they have done next to nothing. The new trends in the #bced system are fermenting a whole group of teenagers who procrastinate, feel anxiety & pressure as their delayed work builds up to untenable amounts, binge to complete work as an end run, do the bare minimum, engage less & see very few consequences. There is increasingly less academic rigour/sense of personal learning responsibility. Just more hedging, more excuses & more sloppy, last-minute work submitted. That’s facts. Ask for the meta studies to support new #bced expectations? Have yet to see any. It’s no bueno, people.