The Editor,
Bravo to Vancouver school Trustee Mike Lombardi.
He and those trustees who voted not to balance the Vancouver School Board budget on the backs of students and programs set an example for other struggling school districts across this province.
Here in the Tri-Cities, we have experienced decades of underfunding, within the bottom three of all B.C. districts, year after year after year.
It is time for boards to stop being the fall guy for these cuts. It is time for all trustees to do what we elect them to do. It is time for a change.
Having attended each all-candidates meeting for School District 43 trustees in the 2014 civic election, I listened while every single candidate pledged to push the provincial government for better funding of public education. I have to wonder, what have our trustees who were elected, done in that regard? These highest paid trustees in the province are, first and foremost, trusted to advocate for our students.
The chair of SD43 board of education would do well to skip the patronizing photo ops and search for meaningful ways to provide more funding for our students.
Roger Ford, Port Coquitlam
