QEA Parent

Dreaming of a city where the school board cares about its students.

[Patti Bacchus @pattibacchus]

“Parents’ top concerns include before-and after-school care, upgrading old schools and building new ones, meal programs, and maintaining sexual orientation and gender identity resources, known as SOGI 123.” https://t.co/VNWbgb71Ae #bced #bcpoli

[QEA Parent @QEAParent]

@vikkhanna 😡

[Queen Elizabeth Annex (QEA) Parents' Society @PacQea]

@MiniIdeal @SaveMACC2022 # every school on @VSB39's secret closure list. @SaveOurSchools #SaveQEA

[QEA Parent @QEAParent]

New residents come with children and children need schools. Why is @VSB39 closing schools? Where is the oversight?

[Steve Saretsky @SteveSaretsky]

Canada welcomed nearly 150k new permanent residents in the first quarter of the year. The most on record by a country mile.

[Jillian Glover @thiscitylifeyvr]

Is @VSB39 talking to @CityofVancouver planners? Or any other level of government? We are forecast to welcome hundreds of thousands of new immigrants to address skill shortages. Do they think none of them will have kids? What about al the density planned around Broadway corridor?

[Queen Elizabeth Annex (QEA) Parents' Society @QEASociety]

Thank you for all of your support @vikkhanna
We are a group of parents fed up with the VSB not putting the interests of our children first. We have filed a petition in the BC Supreme Court, Act No. S231314.
We appreciate any level of support! QEA is the first school of many!

[Queen Elizabeth Annex (QEA) Parents' Society @PacQea]

"The Vancouver School Board has incrementally transitioned ... to a place where information is hidden and embargoed, ... and above all, direct, public and clear communication has been lost."
Vancouver and District Labour Council
@VSB39

[Carrie Bercic @CarrieBercic]

@PacQea @VSB39 @RachnaSinghNDP @DPAC @Vote4ABC @KenSimCity @pattibacchus @COPEVancouver @reddyforchange @MiniIdeal @SaveMACC2022 Trustees could easily direct staff to make meetings open, to have more consultation, to give more weight to community voices... They have given up their voice, by choice... Either the majority of the board is simply too new to know better, or they don't care

[QEA Parent @QEAParent]

This. Where is the accountability?

[Patti Bacchus @pattibacchus]

Nelson was part of the @VSB39 mgt team that advised the board to close the Laurier Annex and lease it out in 2017. Now his team has decided to force Ideal Mini to move to Churchill instead of using the annex. Trustees have grounds to lack confidence in mgt advice on this, imo.

[Queen Elizabeth Annex (QEA) Parents' Society @PacQea]

Our school trustees need to stand up and speak for our communities. That is what they were voted in to do. @Vote4ABC @reddyforchange @COPEVancouver @vikkhanna @VanDPAC @KenSimCity @MichaelLeeBC @MiniIdeal @GlobalBC @CTVVancouver @CityNewsVAN @VancouverSun @DailyHiveVan

[Queen Elizabeth Annex (QEA) Parents' Society @PacQea]

This is QEA. A very special school on very special land. A neighbourhood school. A French immersion school. So much potential.@VSB39 says it's not needed.
@Vote4ABC @reddyforchange @COPEVancouver @pattibacchus @KenSimCity @GlobalBC @CTVVancouver @VancouverSun @CBCNews @VIAwesome

[Queen Elizabeth Annex (QEA) Parents' Society @PacQea]

A secret document that sets out a plan to dispose of over 20 public schools in YVR is a big story. #VSB39 #VSBLandAssetStrategy
@GlobalBC
@CTVVancouver
@CityNewsVAN
@VancouverSun
@DailyHiveVan
@CKNW
@CBCNews
@CBCEarlyEdition
@coleenchristie
@DouglasTodd

[QEA Parent @QEAParent]

Absolutely shocking. To shut down an active school in an area with so much planned development. For this.
#SOS #SaveOurSchools #StopSchoolClosures #SaveQEA #vanpoli #bced
@VIAwesome @CBCEarlyEdition @coleenchristie @DouglasTodd @DailyHiveVan @CKNW @CityNewsVAN

[Queen Elizabeth Annex (QEA) Parents' Society @PacQea]

Trustee Reddy: "...in the operating budget for next year we gained $17,000 in the operating budget due to the closure of Queen Elizabeth Annex. I am not willing to sacrifice present and future learning opportunities for $17,000 in a $700 million budget.”
https://t.co/KFovg2Papa

[Queen Elizabeth Annex (QEA) Parents' Society @PacQea]

QEA is the first of over 20 schools on the VSB's chopping block. Let's stop this and demand transparency and accountability now. We are taking the VSB to court. Join us. This is our children's future.
@reddyforchange @COPEVancouver @vikkhanna @pattibacchus
https://t.co/YIqX3bt09j

[Queen Elizabeth Annex (QEA) Parents' Society @PacQea]

Trustee Reddy: "For me it was really clear that predictive decision-making that loses public education assets are just fiscally irresponsible.” Do better @VSB @Vote4ABC @reddyforchange @COPEVancouver @vikkhanna @pattibacchus @VanDPAC @KenSimCity

https://t.co/KFovg2Papa

[schooladvocate2022 @schooladvocate2]

VSB staff demand loyalty to their nonsensical "data." Trustees must "surplus" QEA due to "declining district enrolment," but move Ideal Mini due to "increasing district enrolment." Yet, trustee Chan-Pedley calls those who question this "non-believers" https://t.co/pCqgMo2sBp

[Queen Elizabeth Annex (QEA) Parents' Society @QEASociety]

Rally against VSB cuts and closures this Wednesday!
#SOS #SaveOurSchools #StopSchoolClosures #SaveQEA #vanpoli #bced
@IanRowebot @PacQea @reddyforchange @COPEVancouver @vikkhanna @pattibacchus @VanDPAC
https://t.co/IdGxHfFE3n

[schooladvocate2022 @schooladvocate2]

@QEASociety @vsb @Vote4ABC @reddyforchange @COPEVancouver @vikkhanna @pattibacchus @VanDPAC @KenSimCity @DailyHiveVan @GlobalBC @CTVVancouver @CityNewsVAN @VancouverSun @CKNW @CBCNews The data in this article, drawn from VSB materials used to justify QEA's closure, is inaccurate. The VSB limits students to justify closure. QEA was built for 280 students (not the 71 the VSB now allows there). QEA also costs almost exactly the mean per student grant to the VSB!

[schooladvocate2022 @schooladvocate2]

At the 04/11 VSB vote to "surplus" QEA, Trustee Chan-Pedley explained that growth & development don't mean more kids because so many families have to leave the city. Exactly! And a major reason is because trustees, like her, keep closing schools! https://t.co/hCUufDYCgQ