Editor:
Re: Outspoken newcomers added to school board, Nov. 19
When I signed up to campaign for trustee earlier this fall, I read the job description very carefully.
Nowhere does it state the role of a trustee is to submit a needs budgets, get fired, shut down schools, host sitins or march on the legislature wearing "Christy Clark is evil!" placards.
While I do think that both Bruce Reid and Rhiannon Bennett have much to offer the board, I do not believe that it's the job of trustees to be "more vocal" in provincial politics.
Wouldn't the time for making the funding of public education in B.C. "a big issue" (as Reid states) be during the run up to the next provincial election?
Laura Dixon is either delusional or just being nice when she states at the end of the article that she sees everyone working together "respectfully and collaboratively." With two trustees operating on a fundamentally divergent agenda, playing nice is not likely to happen.
I encourage parents who have children in our public schools for the next four years to come out to school board meetings. We need to keep an eye on this board or we'll find ourselves singing protest songs in empty classrooms long before school lets out for summer.
To view the school board meeting schedule for 2014-15, go to http://web.deltasd.bc.ca/content/about/boardofeducation/boardmeetings.
Laura Michelle Thomas
