Students Speak Up YCDSB

[Students Speak Up YCDSB @SSUYCDSB]

Such an amazing initiative! Connect with @PoBCAdvocate for more information!

[Parents of Black Children @PoBCAdvocate]

It's official! The Young, Gifted and Black Student Scholarship is here! We are awarding one Full-Time Undergrad student based in Ontario with a $3,500 scholarship. How do you apply? Click here to find out! https://t.co/1Fjqft8sfD Deadline to apply is July 29, 2022, at 11:59 PM!

[Parents of Black Children @PoBCAdvocate]

We are awarding one student in Ontario who is enrolled in a Canadian University/College with a $3,500 scholarship towards eligible expenses.  The winner can be entering any year of a program as long as they are attending full-time classes in Sept 2022.https://t.co/1Fjqft8sfD

[Students Speak Up YCDSB @SSUYCDSB]

Hello SSUYCDSB Community. We need your support.

WE DON’T NEED POLICE OFFICERS IN OUR SCHOOLS!

Dino Giuliani shame on you!

[Woke Mommy Chatter - Kearie Daniel @WokeMommy]

@YCDSB trustee @DinoGiuliani9 has done and is doing everything in his power to ensure police are a force within @ycdsb schools, despite @YRP pausing the program. On Tuesday July 21st at the board meeting he will bring this motion forward and trustees will asked to vote. #stophim

[Students Speak Up YCDSB @SSUYCDSB]

We have no words. This is the bare minimum @YCDSB

[Students Speak Up YCDSB @SSUYCDSB]

While we are on the discussion of how the @YCDSB is continuously complicit in the ongoing violence and racism of Indigenous students and community members.

Here is the YCDSB’s “land acknowledgement” from 2017 which does not acknowledge the Indigenous territory the YCDSB occupies

[Students Speak Up YCDSB @SSUYCDSB]

Why are teachers in your schools teaching the narrative that “Indigenous children in residential schools were already sick as dogs”

These are questions we need answers to.

[Students Speak Up YCDSB @SSUYCDSB]

Apart from posing with your orange shirts, what are the @YCDSB commitments to prioritizing and creating an inclusive space for Indigenous students within your schools?

This is looking very PERFORMATIVE.

We want ACTIONS to move beyond hashtags and photos.

[Domenic Scuglia - @DomenicScuglia]

Today we gathered on the lawn of CEC to stand together in solidarity with Indigenous people everywhere on National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Thank you Chief Delorme for another inspiring talk today @cadmusd. Know the truth and find ways to reconciliation.

[Students Speak Up YCDSB @SSUYCDSB]

@YCDSB what will your response be to this? As you continuously fail to provide accountability to Indigenous and Black communities.

[Students Speak Up YCDSB @SSUYCDSB]

The @YCDSB fails to acknowledge Anti Indigenous racism experienced by Indigenous communities and the residential school system.

Why is this narrative being taught in the classroom?

This is so violent.

[Dean Blundell🇨🇦 @ItsDeanBlundell]

Hey ⁦@YCDSB⁩. You may want to do something about this before I do. Meh, never mind. I’m on it.

[YorkRegion @YorkRegion]

This is troubling. #YorkRegion #education #TruthAndReconciliation https://t.co/PDpSZPoyx6

[Students Speak Up YCDSB @SSUYCDSB]

@PoBCAdvocate is doing some amazing work with community members!

Check out the post below for more information about the SFA program.

[Parents of Black Children @PoBCAdvocate]

1 year ago we launched a formal Systems Navigation program with 1 Systems Navigator through @ONTrillium support. This year along with 16 other Black-led organizations, we have hired another navigator...a Student and Family Advocate (SFA) through @ONSocialService

[Parents of Black Children @PoBCAdvocate]

1 year ago we launched a formal Systems Navigation program with 1 Systems Navigator through @ONTrillium support. This year along with 16 other Black-led organizations, we have hired another navigator...a Student and Family Advocate (SFA) through @ONSocialService

[Students Speak Up YCDSB @SSUYCDSB]

In the last year how many White students and educators have been reprimanded for perpetrating Anti Black racism against Black students?

ZERO

[Students Speak Up YCDSB @SSUYCDSB]

We have had about 2 or 3 meetings with the @YCDSB in the last year, with three different directors of education.

In that year, has a Anti Black Racism strategy been implemented?

The answer is NO

[Students Speak Up YCDSB @SSUYCDSB]

In the last year how many Black students have faced Anti Black racism within the @YCDSB ?

EVERY SINGLE DAY

[Students Speak Up YCDSB @SSUYCDSB]

We hope people realize how much work goes into advocacy work in education and how challenging it is when people in positions of power silence us, and prevent us for creating equitable and inclusive school spaces for our Black, Racialized and Marginalized students.

[Students Speak Up YCDSB @SSUYCDSB]

How many times a year do you think the @YCDSB hosts community meetings and fail to include us and other Black community groups in the conversation?

ALL THE TIME.

[Students Speak Up YCDSB @SSUYCDSB]

We attend these meetings hearing the same speech “we hear you, we are listening”

WE ARE TIRED. WE NEED TO SEE ACTION AND ACCOUNTABILITY.

[Students Speak Up YCDSB @SSUYCDSB]

It is very exhausting and re - traumatizing to have to sit in these meetings with hired educators, directors, and superintendents who pretend to be unaware of Anti Black Racism, and discrimination.

[Students Speak Up YCDSB @SSUYCDSB]

How many times a year do you think we email and reach out to the @YCDSB about working together in creating inclusive spaces for students and get a response?

0.5/10