#epsb — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #epsb, aggregated by home.social.
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My kids spent the afternoon today making signs to carry to the Legislature tomorrow in the school walkout protests planned.
Super impressed and happy about this … the kids are all right.
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All the <gasp> shocking <gasp> examples they have published three times now, were all gender queer coming of age stories, and the #UCP is super frustrated that #EPSB doesn’t seem to get the hint, but will need to be told explicitly to yank all the queer books.
ps thank you EPSB for playing dumb until they either give up or have to say it out loud.
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Today Premier Smith doubles down on what the UCP does best: pointing fingers.
Today, the finger is pointing at EPSB for doing *exactly* what the Minister asked them to do.
Of course the three fingers pointing back at them are the more revealing ones:
1. Clearly the Minister of Education isn’t capable of writing clear instructions. Perhaps the problem is his incompetence.
2. They keep lying about graphic images of sex available to elementary age students, which is patently not true.
3. The true purpose of the order was not to limit sexually explicit material, but to specifically target LGBTQ+ content in libraries.Thank you to EPSB for making them say *exactly* what they really mean.
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So now is when the rubber hits the road for Alberta’s discriminatory anti-trans laws. Edmonton families are receiving notices to complete forms that confirm assigned at birth sex to be eligible to participate in women’s only athletics. This screenshot from Strathcona High School.
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A junior high teacher I know says he has 38 students assigned to his grade 8 math class in Edmonton. The room can fit 32 desks. This is in a school officially designated as not full because they haven’t (yet) exceeded the fire code… it’s really not about wages.
A reminder that money does not have any value of its own, only the values we imbue it with. What we spend our money on speaks of our values. Clearly the Gov of Alberta doesn’t value education or our children.
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The banned book list dropped today. Make sure to include some of these in your school supplies buy so that your kid can trade illicit goods on the playground!
There's some good ones on the list.
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Oh great: David Parker, Take Back Alberta, et al want to make your schools the front line battle ground for the culture wars, even more than they already are. Alberta, make sure you find out who the smart, capable, and progressive candidates are in your district, we can’t let these people get in… can you imagine TBA types on the school board and the #UCP in the Leg at the same time? They will tear apart everything you value about your children and your grandchildren’s schooling: the only reason things aren’t already much worse is because the big school boards have been doing a hero’s job of pushing back against the GovofAB.
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Over the last several years, it has been clear that the UCP and police have a common (or at least parallel) agenda. The #UCP strong-armed #yegcc into restoring police funding, and are now spending this session at #ABLeg to ensure that they will have direct rather than indirect control of municipalities and and school boards. #EPSB may have been advised this was a fight not worth fighting.
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Thanks to the amazing Grade 9 students of Edmonton’s Vernon Barford Jr. High for hosting me yesterday. A delight to speak to 7 classes of bright and sparky young teens about the work of Canada’s Senate. #Edmonton #yeg #SenateofCanada #SenCa #EPSB #VernonBarford #cdnpoli #Alberta
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I'm kicking off Read In Week at Edmonton schools with a virtual event on Monday, Oct. 2 at 1:00 pm. If you want to be a part of the fun, here's the link to register. #yeg #epsb #schools #reading
https://cilc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eeKzOjHqSommxFphPIQVOw#/registration
