Ms Collins

teacher, tweeter, treat-eater

[Ms Collins @itsmscollins]

Trans women are women #InternationalWomensDay

[Teri Mooring🇨🇦 @TeriMooring]

Finally, the BCTF has a survey open right now to hear from you about the health and safety measures at your worksite. The survey will close Monday, September 21 at 9:00 a.m. Please complete it today. https://t.co/ID8rbsyEjt

In sol,
Teri

[Ms Collins @itsmscollins]

If you haven’t already, please email your MLA about what to do with that big chunk of change for #bced https://t.co/VVGFHyHkCz $245 million could do something to reduce class sizes!

[Patti Bacchus @pattibacchus]

Here's what to do #BCed: 1. Go back to the original stage 2 plan and have high school students attend class four half days a week each, in classes of 15 or fewer. 2. Masks for grades four and up. 3. Students go back Sept 15. 4. Upgrade ventilation, add hepa air cleaners etc.

[Patti Bacchus @pattibacchus]

"White Rock dad threatens lawsuit over B.C.'s back-to-school plan" #bced https://t.co/CeoFKzLUHG

[Ms Collins @itsmscollins]

@curlrgirl @jjhorgan I’ll let you sort out the contradictions on your own.

[Ms Collins @itsmscollins]

@curlrgirl @jjhorgan I too trust medical professionals, who are almost unanimously advising to avoid crowded spaces with poor ventilation and to wear mask when distancing isn’t possible. It’s time for the provincial government AND medical professionals to listen to teachers about our classrooms!

[Ms Collins @itsmscollins]

@curlrgirl @jjhorgan I don’t see anything normal about this situation, do you? Cases are peaking again. It’s going to get worse in cold and flu season. The second wave. This so called plan abandons teachers and students alike to the likelihood of school outbreaks. There needs to be better policy!

[Ms Collins @itsmscollins]

@curlrgirl @jjhorgan Girl, have some class solidarity. None of us should be working in unsafe conditions, ever. When there is necessary risk there should be necessary compensation. In this case the risk is unnecessary, and blindly following this plan into the school year puts us at risk.

[Teachers Unite @Teachers__Unite]

78 cases of COVID in Ottawa over the past 11 days in school aged children. And just think, schools aren't even open. #safeseptember

[Ms Collins @itsmscollins]

@jjhorgan This plan is at odds with EVERY instruction we’ve had from the PHO and puts teachers and students at risk. I can’t believe that your concern for the mental and social wellbeing of students is genuine — this is clearly a need driven by the economy.

[Winona Waldron @winonawaldron]

I can't quite wrap my head around how we are going to send all kids back to school at the same time. We cannot control lice outbreaks in elementary/middle school, but we'll be able to control Covid outbreaks?
#RestartRight #bced #COVID19

[Richard Zussman @richardzussman]

The @bctf is calling for the start of the school year to be pushed back to address concerns about the return to school plan. The BCTF is worried about a Sept 8 start being right after Labour Day due to perceived higher risks of virus spread over the long weekend. #bced #bcpoli

[Patti Bacchus @pattibacchus]

I don't blame her | Surrey teacher criticizes province for ‘patronizing’ educators in string of COVID-19 emails #bced https://t.co/Z6gtEqgshU

[Patti Bacchus @pattibacchus]

The question comes down to how much the @jjhorgan government is planning to spend to make a return to class as safe as possible. Need $ for more teachers (smaller classes), more classrooms (including off site and in large tents/temporary structures), improved ventilation, PPE etc

[Creative BUZZ @YVRCreativeBUZZ]

@pattibacchus @Rob_Fleming Has anyone asked students what they think? My 9 year daughter is frightened & doesn’t want to go back. She is turning 10 in Feb & keeps hearing how the virus affects children 10 & over the same as adults. I’m at a loss in what to tell her. 1st time where mama can’t comfort. #bced

[TheJourneylessGenie @TheJourneyGenie]

I used to think @Rob_Fleming wasn’t as dangerous as previous Lib education ministers - but he is. He’s leaving individual districts and schools to decide life and death situations on their own, with next to no leadership. Today wasn’t a “plan” - it was barely an idea. #bced

[Ms Collins @itsmscollins]

You can also catch their phone numbers on the legislative assembly website, I’ve emailed and called already. Let me know if you do too! I’m mad!

[Ms Collins @itsmscollins]

For any teacher friends who are interested in making their views known to @jjhorgan or @Rob_Fleming their emails are: [email protected] and [email protected]

[theBreaker.news and #thePodcast @theBreakerNews]

British Columbia calls an event of 51 or more people a “mass-gathering” and it is illegal. But “learning groups” of up to 120 at a high school are approved under the back to school plan. #bcpoli #coronavirus #covid19