Board meetings minus context (GVSD #61)

Out of context quotes of 280 characters or less from meetings of the Greater Victoria School Board (School District 61). Include #sd61quotes in tweets for RTs.

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It is not a mark of disrespect if you see me chewing on popcorn.

I'm not spectating. It's just what was at hand. #sd61quotes

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At a certain point in the year, all the meetings start to merge into one, so I wasn't recalling which meeting we'd actually discussed it in. #sd61quotes

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When we keep saying we're creating a safe environment, we need to back it up. #sd61quotes

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I'm not a defunding-the-cops fan or anything like that, but what are the services provided [by School Liaison Officers] that can't be provided by civilians? I think that's what we really have to look at. #sd61quotes

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It's not just the students that we've seen be affected, it's the teachers, it's the staff, it's visitors to the school coming into an environment that is no longer biologically safe. #sd61quotes

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Our youngest students are probably our least clean. And so what happens is they bring sickness home, and parents lose work. Infrastructure starts to crumble. Teachers get sick, they bring it home, and it's just a really horrible cycle. #sd61quotes

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Custodians of SD61 have some of the longest runs in the province. That means they have the most square footage they're responsible for. This was before the cuts & now they have more & more being added to their list of things to do in a day. This is not reasonable. #sd61quotes

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When you remove the rugs, you gain minutes to put into desktops. #sd61quotes

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In many of the schools we toured, we're not even hearing the word "classrooms", we're hearing "learning spaces". And that is not synonymous with the present day classroom. #sd61quotes

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We don't use the term "classroom". We use the word "learning spaces". #sd61quotes

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We actually owe it to the taxpayers who are funding this school to be promoting trades that are relevant to helping us with our current housing crisis. I think to not have a trades-related shop in the new build would be irresponsible of us considering what's going on. #sd61quotes

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Maker spaces do not train students in any way that is going to help us with our current housing crisis. I think we need a trades-related shop, whether it's woods or metal or both at Cedar Hill. I think we need a trades-related shop in every middle school. #sd61quotes

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You can get it down to nearly 22000 square feet per day. That would be ten of my houses. Maybe more. #sd61quotes

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If we've learned anything from covid & the viruses that are circulating, we need more space. We don't need rooms that are the size of a postage stamp, we also need the room to function well for teaching and learning. #sd61quotes

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Maybe there's a broom closet that can be a lounge. #sd61quotes

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It's Mora Cunningham here. I'm the manager of major capital projects here at the ministry—sorry, at the school district. #sd61quotes

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Pedagogy is secondary to what happens to a facility. #sd61quotes

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Monday night: my one day of the week that I drink coffee after six. #sd61quotes

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It certainly feels like there's a lot of foot dragging, whether it be from lawyers or whatnot—I don't know what the reason is, why after being such an incredibly great client, that we're not able to get the service that we should be getting. #sd61quotes

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I'm feeding myself tonight, which is always a dangerous thing. #sd61quotes