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Kimiko Shibata @eslfairy.bsky.social · 1d

Children who are fed are children who can focus and learn in school.

Children who are fed are children who can grow up to one day care for others in their communities.

One day all of us will need someone to care for us.

Feed the children.

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Kimiko Shibata @eslfairy.bsky.social · 1d

“The solution isn’t cutting trustees,” she says. “It’s properly funding schools so they don’t have to keep making cutbacks to balance the budget. Every year it’s cuts, cuts, cuts — when what we need is investment.”
www.orilliamatters.com/local-news/d... #OntEd

Do we need school trustees? Advocates weigh in on reform proposal

‘Once you remove trustees, you remove local accountability. That paves the way for privatized education,' warns public education advocate

www.orilliamatters.com

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Sara @sarablue.bsky.social · 2d

Heya #Onted people! New resource for School Advisory Councils (SAC, parent council) to formally bring a motion and write a letter to the Minister of Education in opposition to Supervision, #Bill33, and demanding full and appropriate funding. More here: linktr.ee/forpublicsch...

HOW TO:
BRING A MOTION DEMANDING PROPER EDUCATION FUNDING AND OPPOSING SUPERVISION
School Advisory Councils
Every school has a School Advisory Council (SAC) or parent council. They are a great way to connect with other parents and to have strong parent voices in the school system advocating for the proper funding of our schools. School Councils have an official role in the provincial school system, it is powerful to use this role to hold the Provincial Government to account.

Step 1
Toronto Education Advocacy Network (TEAN) has prepared a sample motion directing your school council to write a letter to the provincial government. Revise the template motion to reflect any specific issues that may be particularly relevant to the parent & caregiver community at your school. You probably know some of these.
Speaking to council members and other parents/caregivers will help you identify more. Include these in your WHEREAS clauses in the motion.

Step 2

Any parent/caregiver is welcome to attend SAC meetings and can raise an issue or motion to discuss and vote on at SAC meetings. Depending on the council by-laws at your school there may be different processes around raising and voting on issues. (see also: TEAN's Speaking About Education Advocacy on School Council Toolkit)
Step 3
Connect with your SAC co-chair or a member of the executive to put this motion on the agenda of your next council meeting.
step 4
Bring information and flyers about
Step
education cuts along with the motion to your SAC meeting.
Step 5
When passed, the school council chair/co-chairs can use the template letter as a starting point for their letter, so they don't have to write it from scratch. Please revise the letter and make it your school's own!
SEND via email to
the Minister of Education and CC list, the motion and letter, on SAC motion template.

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Norm Di Pasquale🇨🇦 @normsworld.bsky.social · 2d

‘Once you remove trustees, you remove local accountability. That paves the way for privatized education,' Do we need school trustees? Advocates weigh in on reform proposal www.orilliamatters.com/local-news/d... #topoli #onpoli #onted

Do we need school trustees? Advocates weigh in on reform proposal

‘Once you remove trustees, you remove local accountability. That paves the way for privatized education,' warns public education advocate

www.orilliamatters.com

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Sara @sarablue.bsky.social · 2d

And a mini reorganization explainer. Why it’s so much worse this year. #onted #onpoli

WHAT IS
REORGANIZATION
AND WHY IS IT SO
DISRUPTIVE THIS YEAR?
The reorganization process happens every year in September to balance the actual enrollment numbers against the projected numbers from the spring. This year seems to be particularly disruptive as it appears the needs of individual schools and students have not been taken
into account in the process and the board has been forcing schools to make changes based purely on numbers rather than the unique circumstances of each school.
In a typical year, trustees meet with superintendents and school representatives and advocate for the schools' needs on an individual basis. It is within the power of the board to maintain staff to reduce disruption. Trustees also communicate changes and decision making processes to schools, school councils, parents and caregivers.

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Sara @sarablue.bsky.social · 2d

Re-upping the reorg action from last month :(
#onted #onpoli #tdsb

WHAT CAN PARENTS & CAREGIVERS DO?
ACTION
01
CALL and EMAIL
The Minister of Education, Paul Calandra (416) 325-2600;
TDSB Supervisor
Rohit Gupta 416-395-8787,
Premier
Doug Ford (416) 325-1941,
and Your MPP!

WHAT CAN PARENTS & CAREGIVERS DO?
ACTION
02
Demand transparency in communication and decision making from The Supervisor
03
Tell the Supervisor, the Minister, Your MPP how your school community and/or your child(ren) are impacted by the disruption of reorganization this year.
04
Ask "How will reorganizations that are not associated with enrollment changes be prevented in future to ensure stability for children and staff?"

WHAT CAN PARENTS & CAREGIVERS DO?
ACTION
05
Demand to reinstate trustees as they are our local, democratically elected representatives. In a typical year, Trustees would be integral to minimizing disruption to learning during the reorg process through meeting with superintendent and principals and advocating for the unique needs of individual schools.

WHAT CAN PARENTS & CAREGIVERS DO?
ACTION
06 Ask the Minister of Education,
"How will you fund education systems to ensure that schools that do not fit the teacher funding model (e.g. small schools) are supported in a way that does not create negative impacts across other schools in the system?"

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MamãBear @alsolearning.bsky.social · 2d

Even within a single grade, there are many varying abilities & learning styles - THREE grades combined is A LOT. 🤦🏻‍♀️
Don’t blame the school - call MoE Paul Calandra & #TDSB supervisor Rohit Gupta ([email protected])
www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...

‘A slap in the face’: North York parents speak out against combined classroom with three grades

Parents at a North York elementary school are speaking out after three grades were combined into a single classroom taught by a single teacher following a recent reorganization process.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Kimiko Shibata @eslfairy.bsky.social · 2d

Mike Harris divided #OntEd by taking principals and vice-principals out of teachers’ unions, allowing uncertified staff to teach in schools, and taking a lot of decision-making away from local school boards, manufacturing a crisis to defund schools.

Doug Ford is using the same playbook.

a woman is sitting at a table with a sign that says `` that 's not ok ''

Alt: a woman is sitting at a table with text `` that 's not ok ''

media.tenor.com

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Kimiko Shibata @eslfairy.bsky.social · 2d

“Unfortunately, this is like the sword of Damocles hanging over our heads now. It’s going to be a tough year because we don’t know where we’re going” #Bill33 #OntEd

www.collingwoodtoday.ca/local-news/c...

‘Catastrophic’: Simcoe school trustees fire back at education minister

‘It’s a bit overbearing and frightening knowing that the community connection might be gone because of this,’ says Collingwood/Wasaga Beach trustee

www.collingwoodtoday.ca

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Sara @sarablue.bsky.social · 3d

💯 they cut off livestream for the Toronto Lands Corp meetings and made public info (minutes, agendas, etc) only available at in person meetings. Not posting online at the direction of the ministry of education

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 3d

The idea that these two traumatized peoples, one of which spent two full years grinding through the other as if with a meat grinder, have any kind of normal to ~return to~ is psychotic. The idea that *more* oppression & dehumanization of the Palestinians is what will bring actual peace is doubly so.

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Sara @sarablue.bsky.social · 3d

This is true for the disability community and all parents, caregivers and community. We see being shut out of public meetings and public information is being kept under wraps. Please call and email Ford and Minister of Ed to demand transparency #onted #onpoli

Tell Premier Doug Ford &
Education Minister Paul Calandra Supervision isn't the solution - proper funding is!
416-325-1941
416-325-2600

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Robert Benzie @robertbenzie.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Today is the second anniversary of the RCMP investigation into Premier Doug Ford’s Greenbelt land swap. But the Mounties have only interviewed one of the four‬⁩ Tories who lost their jobs in the fallout of the scandal.
#onpoli

www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

Two years later, top Tories who lost jobs in Greenbelt scandal still haven’t been interviewed by RCMP

Royal Canadian Mounted Police officials were tight-lipped when contacted about the second anniversary of launching their criminal inquiry.

www.thestar.com

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Sara @sarablue.bsky.social · 3d

It’s Fone Ford Friday! Give our premier an earful about how to actually support our kids and our public schools! #onted #onpoli

TAKE ACTION FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS
CALL MINISTER OF EDUCATION, PAUL CALANDRA
416-325-2600
CALL PREMIER FORD
416-325-1941
Suggested Script:
I'm calling today as a parent/caregiver of a child(ren) in Ontario Public Schools, to voice my support for the role of democratically elected trustees in our school system and my opposition to Bill 33.
I am unhappy with the Minister's threats to eliminate trustees who provide parents and caregivers with a voice in education.
I'm asking the minister to commit to funding for our public schools that keeps pace with inflation, and the costs of providing the excellent public education all children in this province deserve.
I'm calling to voice my opposition to Bill 33 because it weakens our school boards and mandates policing in schools. We do not need policing in schools; we need funding for more supports and smaller class sizes.
I'm asking the minister to fund our schools and withdraw Bill 33 and reinstate our democratically elected trustees.

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Kimiko Shibata @eslfairy.bsky.social · 3d

Disability advocate concerned that families are being shut out of their child’s education: .ca/news/1147239... #OntEd

Disability advocate concerned TDSB meeting changes will shut parents out | Globalnews.ca

A prominent disability advocate says the Ford government's decision to stop live-streaming meetings at the school boards it has taken over is "troubling and undemocratic."

globalnews.ca

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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 4d

School trustees have existed since the early 1800s, serving as a link between classrooms and communities. Now, Ontario education minister Paul Calandra wants to eliminate them. Writer @scottpiatkowski.bsky.social examines what's at stake: thewalrus.ca/im-a-school-trus...

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Robert Zaichkowski @rzaichkowski.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. Carrie Mitchell's petition urging Ontario Premier Doug Ford to reverse his proposed speed camera ban now has over 5000 signatures! Please sign & share widely. #BikeTO #WalkTO #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero chng.it/Z85n4bwgLg

Have you seen this petition yet?

Reverse the decision on speed cameras in Ontario

chng.it

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Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association @catholicteachers.bsky.social · 4d

📢GTA parents and teachers!

Can’t attend York Communities for Public Education's town hall tonight on #Bill33 and the government's school takeover?

Watch the event live via Facebook at 6:30 p.m.: https://bit.ly/479Jvds

Together, let's champion the real investments #OntEd students need to succeed!

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Sara @sarablue.bsky.social · 4d

I agree but I also witnessed a torontonian pronounce Etobicoke like a tourist the other day and I GASPED!

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Sara @sarablue.bsky.social · 5d

Noting that an elementary school is on that stretch just two blocks from that capture. Cities!!

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Scott Piatkowski @scottpiatkowski.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks to @thewalrus.ca for agreeing to publish my thoughts on the proposed elimination of school trustees in Ontario.

#OntEd

thewalrus.ca/im-a-school-...

I’m a School Trustee, and Doug Ford Wants to Eliminate My Job | The Walrus

What parents will lose: no one to answer their emails, fight for safe crosswalks, hold the system to account

thewalrus.ca

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Sara @sarablue.bsky.social · 5d

Not just you. Showing no results for anything I search for.

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ArtsNScience @borgalerp.bsky.social · 5d

#Ontario Min of Ed cancelled webcasts of Special Education committee meetings calling public access “a forum for politics”.
The government believes that parents advocating for their children’s needs & disability is unnecessary “politics”.

#onpoli
toronto.citynews.ca/2025/10/07/o...

Province blocking livestreams of school board committee meetings

The chair of the TDSB's special education advisory committee says the government has given no reason for arbitrarily banning live streaming.

toronto.citynews.ca

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Sara @sarablue.bsky.social · 5d

Blocking not only livestreams, but also agendas, minutes and documents from meetings. I got this response from Toronto Land Corp (TDSB subsidiary, manages $12 Billion in Toronto properties). #onted #onpoli

Hello Sara,
Thanks for your note. While Board Meetings remain open to the public at 201 - 60 St.
Clair Avenue East, we have received direction that, while under supervision, TLC agendas will not be posted or shared online, and meetings will not be webcast. Decisions from the meetings will be posted online following a review by the Ministry of Education (including the May 25 minutes that will be approved at the outset of the October 7 Board Meeting).
Best wishes,
Markus O'Brien Fehr
Head of Communications & External
Relations
416-788-3211; C: 416-451-166Z |
mo'brienfehr.tlc@tdsb.on.ca/
torontolandscorp.com

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Aurelia Cotta The Original @originalaurelia.bsky.social · 6d

Always…he is blocking every livestream of every educational meeting and report given. Hiding everything the “Supervisors” are doing to our Boards of Education. #TDSB #TCDSB #onted #onpoli

3 Sides🪶🟥🍁🟥🖇️🐦‍⬛ @3sides.bsky.social · 6d

Doug Ford is more concerned about alcohol than he is about education & transparency.
toronto.citynews.ca/2025/10/07/o...

Province blocking livestreams of school board committee meetings

The chair of the TDSB's special education advisory committee says the government has given no reason for arbitrarily banning live streaming.

toronto.citynews.ca

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