YoungMindBodySpirit

Reiki energy healing master/teacher, Certified Laughter Yoga instructor, Kids Yoga instructor, Elementary teacher and Teacher educator: Nish Thaver

[YoungMindBodySpirit @YMBS333]

@CristinaSchultz @AM730Traffic @Natalie87045357 Is this on Burrard bridge?

[ami 🔻🍁 @lateniteboodles]

Gonna watch this and pretend I am here 50 times a day to preserve the last remaining embers of my mental health

[Kyla Epstein (she/her) @kylaepstein]

.@VSB39 trustee @reddyforchange reads to attendees @CivicGovernance #HighGround2021 from the @DEWCVancouver Red Women Rising report. Makes a call to action for #bced to shift power by listening to what community members have already said is needed! #bcpoli

[Erin Conners @ErinConners_]

This. Called the speaker a "coloured person," caught himself and then went on to refer to "coloured students." And no one immediately called that out in the moment. This is how far back we're starting. Cool.

[Kyla Epstein (she/her) @kylaepstein]

So let's just be clear about something as we listen to tonight's @VSB39 meeting. The SLO program is not the same as the VPD Cadet program. Not that I support the cadet program either but they are different programs. It is not the cadet program that is up for review. #VSB39

[Kyla Epstein (she/her) @kylaepstein]

Interesting in listening to the positive stories about #VSB39 SLOs. Sounds like the speakers want their positive experiences to be valued more than the stories of harm of others. I guess that's one way to make choices for the collective good...hope @VSB39 trustees don't agree.

[Andrea Vásquez Jiménez @AndreaVasquezJ]

We here to support each other.
We. Will. Win.
#PoliceFreeSchoolsCAWide

[Cops out of Schools @nocopsinschools]

Watch @VSB39 Special Board mtg to hear from the public re: SLO program review. 23 delegates in total. No surprise, VPD has sent 3 people to speak. We don't need to hear violent institutions justify their existence in our schools. #copaganda https://t.co/UPCATDEYYU

[Cops out of Schools @nocopsinschools]

Hey Constables! Why do you think people have 'negative' and traumatic interactions and experiences with police? At least they are being upfront that the SLO program is a perfect opportunity to recruit youth into policing. #copaganda

[Cops out of Schools @nocopsinschools]

@kylaepstein speaking truth. Reminding trustees to not make a decision based on the personalities of individual SLOs. Is the program truly for ALL students?! Urging to invest alternative programming that doesn't perpetrate systems of oppressions

[Cops out of Schools @nocopsinschools]

Jamie Smallboy, Indigenous mother poses critical questions: what are you grooming our children to be? What cycles of oppression are you helping perpetuate? 'My children's lives , and mine are often in the margins and unseen'. Sharing painful violent lived experience with police.

[Cops out of Schools @nocopsinschools]

Nish Thaver, does not hold back: is there a certain number of students need to be harmed by the SLO program before trustees will take action? Where is our imagination to decolonize education? Demands that any reform considerations is business as usual. That is NOT antiracism!

[Cops out of Schools @nocopsinschools]

Richard Smallboy: VSB student alumni shares the importance of restorative justice grounded in community. Smallboy reports he was harassed by the SLOs on a daily basis leading to dropping out of school. Heartbreaking the treatment of his younger brother who was brutalized by SLOs

[Cops out of Schools @nocopsinschools]

Smallboy: SLOs creates direct links between systems between systems learning and criminal justice systems. This is the school to prison pipeline. Cites 3 Indigenous organizations that should have been hired rather than Argyle. Community care programs are critical to support BIPOC

[Andrea Vásquez Jiménez @AndreaVasquezJ]

Dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline is a must, a necessary initial step is #PoliceFreeSchools

Transformative, healthy, equitable #PoliceFreeSchoolsCAWide is a human right!

[Cops out of Schools @nocopsinschools]

Ther Sita: again calling that direction must be taken from Black and Indigenous students! Remove the term 'centered' if thats not your intention. It's on your conscience @VSB39 trustees, have a spine and stand up!

[Cops out of Schools @nocopsinschools]

Erin Peters: children have the right to safety! Are police actually the best trained to provide these services? Citing school districts across the country have set precedence.

Take bold leadership @VSB39

[Cops out of Schools @nocopsinschools]

Trixie, VSB student: "when a relationship gets abusive, you need to walk away from it. That's how BIPOC people feel about the police, the time to compromise is over"

She also cited the recent violent assault on @BraidedWarriors

@VSB39 your political can stop the abuse.

[Andrea Vásquez Jiménez @AndreaVasquezJ]

What is problematic with data research & corporations or even within academia, is when researchers choose to take a "neutral & objective stance", it always perpetuates the status-quo/dominant/colonial/violent realities & there is no accountability #PoliceFreeSchoolsCAWide

[Cops out of Schools @nocopsinschools]

Nancy Trigueros shares her expertise on how racialized students on the ASD spectrum experience the presence of police in their schools "We need to see through their lens." It's not about OUR false sense of security. "Let schools TRULY be their safe spaces"