Times THE BOUNDARY CREEK
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Thursday, October 17, 2013 VOL. 31 Number 42
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Permission slips revised
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Mrs. Lucente’s foods class hosted the 26th anniversary turkey dinner at BCSS last Thursday. The meal, which includes turkey and all the fixings, is funded by the Parent Advisory Council and is provided to all students and staff.
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School District 51 (SD51) has received approval from the BC School Trustee Association (BCSTA) legal department on a revised photo permission slip that will be sent home for parents to consider signing. Superintendent Kevin Argue said that a form provided by BCSTA that went out at the beginning of the year wasn’t working. Sources at Boundary Central Secondary School reported that the original permission form was overly complicated and that less than half of the parents were willing to allow their children’s photos to be used, even for such things as a school yearbook. *** Prior to the meeting of SD51 board of education on Oct. 8, a group of five BCSS students came with aboriginal education teacher Marilyn Hanson to share with the trustees their reflections after an overnight trip to Vancouver to attend the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into Indian residential schools. Some students said that prior to attending Education Day, they had no recollection of ever having heard the term. Hanson explained that the trip was meant to be less teaching and more experience. “We are hoping that Socials 11 this year will go a little more in-depth,” she added. Boundary District Teachers’ Association president Norm Sabourin asked what the students could suggest as a possible reconciliation. He was told positive steps to make it better are needed—like teaching proper education—without hiding that it happened. Director of Instruction Doug Lacey also attended. “I came away feeling a lot richer for it and a lot more understanding of the intergenerational dysfunction that has happened through our aboriginal families in many ways over multi-generations,” he said. “I am looking at the difficulties of aboriginal life in Canada in a different way.” Board chair Teresa Rezansoff, who also sits as chair of the BCSTA, said that a number of recommendations on the subject had been passed at their last annual general meeting. “It’s not like you can read those recommendations and not argue that they are a good thing to do; they are the right and just thing to do,” said Rezansoff.
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