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[todd]

Just search "giant fake boobs" and you'll do fine....

lot more real looking than I thought

[Victoria Watcher]

[Matt R.]

Establish a committee to establish a plan put forward by the previously established committee.

Edited by Matt R., 13 March 2023 - 10:05 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Maybe in art class students can make an ACAB montage.

[Victoria Watcher]

One in five pupils in England were persistently absent in past school year

 

https://www.theguard...ast-school-year

 

 

[aastra]

 

After concerns were raised at the high and persistent levels of absence since the pandemic and school-related closures, the DfE has started a number of initiatives, including hiring dedicated attendance advisers, creating “attendance hubs” to share best practice, and pilot programmes such as one in Middlesbrough, aiming to tackle underlying causes including bullying or mental health issues by giving support to persistently and severely absent pupils.

However, more recent data from the current academic year suggested illness and unauthorised absences remained a problem for many schools. Headteachers have said a “cultural shift” meant parents were more likely to allow children to stay at home.

 

 

Translation: we spent billions of dollars trying to convince people they were risking life and limb merely by stepping outside... and some people actually believed it.

 

At this point I think I have more sympathy for those who remain consistent in their irrational terror than I do for those who flip-flop hourly depending on whatever the TV is telling them. The latter are like waves being tossed in the sea.

 

Gotta love that Orwellian terminology re: "unauthorized absences". Parental authority seems bizarre and absurd to statists because it's an authority that has natural and inherent legitimacy. No gun barrel required.

[Nparker]

...we spent billions of dollars trying to convince people they were risking life and limb merely by stepping outside... and some people actually believed it....

I'll never understand how anyone can function without a basic cynicism towards everything told to them by those in power.

[todd]

Ask an Expert: Dyslexia awareness
“..massive change to how those with learning disabilities can access help has taken place, despite literacy rates in the province drop…”: https://globalnews.c...-awareness/amp/


Web forums might be an alternative effective treatment? The side effects though

[pontcanna]

B.C. teacher suspended for pushing student from classroom

April 10, 2023 

A Vancouver Island schoolteacher lost his teaching certificate for one day and was directed to complete a course on creating a positive learning environment after he pushed a Grade 7 student out of his classroom.

Blair Howard Murray Hughes was teaching a woodshop class in the Sooke School District on Dec. 14, 2020.

"While Hughes had a rule requiring students in the woodshop class to remain inside until the class bell had rung and the class was dismissed, some students began making their way outside," according to a recently published consent resolution agreement from the B.C. Commissioner for Teacher Regulation.

Hughes and the student had "an increasingly heated discussion about when students could leave the woodshop," according to the agreement.

When the student argued with Hughes, he responded, "Stop being disrespectful. I'm not your mom and dad," the agreement said.

The teacher put his hand on the student's shoulder to remove him from the classroom. The student raised his arm and Hughes held onto his wrist in an effort to direct him into the hallway and to the principal's office.

The student told Hughes to stop touching him. Hughes then pushed the student out the door.

The teacher was issued a letter of discipline from the school district, which also suspended him without pay for two days. He served the suspension on Oct. 12 and Oct. 13.

Under the resolution signed on March 20, Hughes agreed to a one-day suspension of his teaching certificate to be served on April 5.

He was also directed to complete a course on creating a positive learning environment through the Justice Institute of British Columbia by March 31 of next year.

 

More: https://vancouverisl...sroom-1.6349230

 

[Victoria Watcher]

A community group is backing a petition to B.C. Supreme Court this week to quash a land exchange along the western boundary of Victoria High School.

 

The goal of the court case is to allow a full-scale revitalization of the school’s Memorial Stadium to go ahead, something the Friends of Vic High say was sidelined when the Greater Victoria School District agreed to the land swap to allow an affordable-housing project to proceed.

 

 

 

https://www.timescol...nd-swap-6852865

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 15 April 2023 - 03:05 AM.

[Mike K.]

This is the project they’re referring to: https://victoria.cit...tals/caledonia/

[G-Man]

These people lost their pitch to the public when it was proposed. Somehow I have been aware of the current plan for years. I see little chance they will succeed. 

[aastra]

After reading G-Man's post I grabbed my camera, hopped on a bus, and ran over to Vic High to snap a current pic. Sorry for taking so long. It's not easy being VV's official unofficial temporary replacement for VV's official unofficial photographer.

 

[aastra]

I gotta say, a proper track would have been great here and it also seems like there should be one there. Where's the next nearest one?

 

Was the old gym at Vic High the only gym in Victoria with one of those old vintage running tracks suspended above the basketball court?

[JohnsonStBridge]

I gotta say, a proper track would have been great here and it also seems like there should be one there. Where's the next nearest one?

 

Oak Bay High 

[aastra]

You know, an even better question might be how many proper 400m tracks are there, period?

 

An old post on Reddit says:

 

Oak Bay High School (rubber)

University of Victoria (rubber, various hours)

Claremont Secondary School in Saanich (asphalt)

Esquimalt High (asphalt)

Vic High (dirt track last time I saw it)

 

...but I guess Parkland in Sidney also has a track now (if it didn't before, no idea). And Camosun Interurban now has a track.

 

It seems like a missed opportunity to not put a proper surfaced track at Vic High.

[Mike K.]

There’s a new track at Royal Bay Secondary, too.

[aastra]

Is that the only one in the west comms?

 

(This discussion has become circuitous but at least nobody can accuse us of getting off track.)

[Mike K.]

There’s also the old track at the speedway.

[LJ]

Track at Belmont I think.