Last week, we each attended a ‘town hall’ about the WRDSB strategic plan. Here we compare notes and conclude that many parents are hungry for a town hall, which these events did not even remotely resemble. Instead, parents were directed to unattended stations where they could silently read a placard and place written comments in a suggestion box. Usefully, staff and trustees were on hand and available for discussion. You can provide feedback to WRDSB by December 12th.

6:25 Previous discussion with Stephen Reich about the strat plan

7.27 10,000 people consulted; half were students

17:57 Money for consultants not glue sticks

20:35 The strat plan reflects culturally relevant and responsive pedagogy (CRRP)

36:30 Progressives are keen to censor “ideologically problematic” parents

38:35 Enlightening conversations we had; parents want a real town hall

47:43 While widely billed as a ‘town hall,’ the WRDSB itself welcomed participants to something “a bit different from a traditional town hall—think of it more like an open house.”

49:33 CRRP is effective—as a tool to harvest tax dollars

Op-ed in Waterloo Record by Trustees Watson, Ramsay, and Cody about declining enrolments coinciding with increasing ideologies at WRDSB.

Op-ed by Geoff in Waterloo Record rebutting WRDSB claims that they don’t practice identity politics a.k.a. CRRP.

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