Advocacy
Should Local Parents Question Official Statistics?
June 12, 2012
Some people are saying that the Parksville Qualicum Beach News Editor attempted to discredit a "local" parent for "questioning official numbers". What do you think? Did the parent, who asked for enrolment numbers since the school (proposed for closure) was first opened, lead community members including the Mayor astray? Read more ...
Communities can be located on a scale between democracy and despotism as indicated by access to information. Click on the Information image to see a video describing communities in this manner.
Participation in Global Knowledge Economy starts Locally
April 18, 2012
Communities that encourage public consultation, scientific inquiry, the exchange of information, thoughtful discussion, and engage students, young and old, in local issues are both better informed and better able to participate, and gain high paying jobs, in the growing global knowledge economy. Read more ...
QSD 69, Student's Study - Request for Same Data Sent to Consultant
February 1, 2012
Regarding Eve Flynn's concerns about public trust and QSD 69 "own purposes" ...
Could students use the same data that is sent to the consultant? Read more ...
QSD 69, Student's Study of Effects on Transportation Services, Data Request to go lawyer
January 31, 2012
Our request for relevant information regarding the recommendations to close schools is the be considered by Judith Clark legal counsel for BCSTA. Read Board of Education Trustee, Eve Flynn's email wherein Eve states "I don't know if that is a breach of the public trust of the information we know and have for our own purposes as a SD which we are not privy to share".
QSD 69, Student's Study of Effects on Transportation Services, Data Request
January 31, 2012
Our request for relevant information regarding the effects on transportation services as per the School Closure Policy (3040) Section 1b
1. Where the Board contemplates a school closure, it will take into consideration:
a. the extent of the potential impact on students, families and the community of the facility to be closed;
b. relevant factors such as enrolment projections, the physical condition of the school, available alternatives for students, catchment areas, effect on transportation services and alternative potential uses for the facility.
Qualicum School District Facility Review, Student Project
January 12, 2012
VUI student GIS project. Read more ...
Proposed changes to the Public Consultation Process while the Public Consultation Process is underway
November 1, 2011
The School District administration started working on changing the Public Consultation Process shortly after the October 2, 2010 presentation wherein a school closure was recommended. First reading passed in January 2011. Second, and possibly third reading may occur prior to the inaugration of the trustees, December 2011. Do the proposed changes provide for a better, more fair public consultation process, or do they restrict public consultation? Read more ...
Community Dialogue Sessions "focus to record beliefs and values"
October 31, 2011
What is the back ground information and problem told to attendees of the Community Dialgue meetings .... "The focus of these meetings will be to provide background information and to define the problem facing the district, and to gather the beliefs and values of the community in regards to education." Letter to Jim Ansell, QSD Superintendent
SUCCESS AT LAST! Still, BC Stats Must Allow Verification of Population Numbers
September 22, 2011
After 13 years of not publishing changes to the population estimation model, the BC provincial government Official Statistical agency, BC Stats, under new management, has revised the 1998 methods paper.
Read more ... with link to a letter to the new Provincial Statistician & Executive Director, BC Stats, Ministry of Labour, Citizens' Services and Open Government, Angelo Cocco, regarding missing information.
QSD announces start of community dialogue sessions
September 06, 2011
"The focus of these meetings will be to provide background information and to define the problem facing the district, and to gather the beliefs and values of the community in regards to education" (.pdf)
Why are the BC Population Estimates Methods not Published?
August 5, 2011
Request to BC Stats regarding use of telephone landline hookup data and other indicators to estimate population change. (.pdf)
Information Requests
July 7, 2011
Requests for relevant information, including enrolment breakouts by school by grade, began in 2008, and continue.
Request to Board for all relevant information
Scott Fraser, MLA for Alberni-Pacific Rim, raises the issue of fluctuating enrolment at the 2011 BC Legislative Session, May 17, 2011
... Third Session, 39th Parliament for the Committee of Supply, ESTIMATES: MINISTRY OF EDUCATION on the Hansard website. Scroll down to the [1550] (3:50pm). Click the back button on your browser to return to this site.
Clarification request regarding proposal to create a Community Dialogue Committee email to District Parents Advisory Committee representative. May 12, 2011.
Proposal to create a Community Dialogue Committee email from District Parents Advisory Committee representative. May 5, 2011.
3001 regarding 3040Reply from the QSD Board. March 24, 2011.
Letter to Ron Cantelon, and all MLAs, regarding population modeling methodologies referred to in the proposal to close Kwalikum Secondary School, and Mr. Cantelon's reply, March 18, 2011.
3001 regarding 3040, administration form numbers, code for "give us a break", Request to the QSD Board. February 21, 2011.
December 2010 vote on closure extended. October 26, 2010
"We are announcing today that the timeline for consultation and research will be extended into the next school year, and that a long range facilities plan will not be completed this school year" See the Message from the Board (.pdf)
According to the School Opening and Closure Order, 3040, the process must be a minimum of four months - until February 2011; therefore, the QSDBoard was simply complying with the standing order.
Recommendation to close high school annouced. October 2, 2010
The Qualicum School District Superintendent stated at the October 2, 2010 meeting, that a vote on which of three recommendations, all requiring the permanent closure of the high school in Qualicum Beach, would take place at the December 2010 Board meeting. Qualicum School District (QSD) School Closure Order (.pdf)

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