School accommodations, such as reduced workload and rest periods that are recommended for other conditions affecting cognitive and academic functioning, such as concussion or ADHD, could be options to improve outcomes
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Parents, caregivers, teachers, and schools may consider that children with long COVID disproportionately experience both functional limitations and sick days off from school.
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/... #bcpoli #bced #VSB39
Together, our findings suggest that long COVID has a potentially large impact on US school-aged children.
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/... #bced #VSB39 #abed
When The Tyee brought this to Vancouver School Board communications staff to inquire whether this (VPD cop having sex & abusing high school girl) had occurred at one of the district’s schools, the VSB told The Tyee it was unaware of the incident or any investigation.
#Vanpoli #Vsb39 #bced
The investigation summary says the #VPD officer lied to the high school student about his age and was both emotionally and verbally abusive towards the young woman.
#Vanpoli #Vsb39 #bced
Where is he ( VPD cop fired for having sex with a teen girl he met at a Vancouver high school while doing a presentation on police) now?
He might be working as a member of the RCMP somewhere and he might be in a school in the Okanagan.
We don’t know,” McDermott said.
#Vanpoli #Vsb39 #bced
CADDRA would like to offer five Canadian students conference awards for the 21st Annual ADHD Conference, Oct 17-19 in Vancouver.
Award is a complimentary registration to this in-person conference
The deadline to submit is July 31.
www.surveymonkey.com/r/K2D7Z8W
#ADHDSky #bced #abed #oned #vsb39
CADDRA would like to offer five Canadian students conference awards for the 21st Annual ADHD Conference, Oct 17-19 in Vancouver.
Award is a complimentary registration to this in-person conference
The deadline to submit is July 31.
www.surveymonkey.com/r/K2D7Z8W
#ADHDSky #bced #abed #oned #vsb39
In a susceptible population, 90% of people exposed to someone with measles will come down with it.
Measles Chart by states. The number of infected people, measured over 70-some years and across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, generally declined after vaccines were introduced.
BC needs a PHO that prioritizes Protecting against disease vs prioritizing #FreedomToInfect your neighbours to kill them or disable them for Libertarianism and winery safe consumption sites $
Battling Infectious Diseases in the 20th Century: The Impact of Vaccines
#bcpoli #bced #vsb39 #Measles
healthline Health Conditions v Discover v Plan v Connect v In contrast, diseases that are transmitted through bodily fluids, such as Ebola or HIV, aren't as easy to contract or transmit. This is because you need to come into contact with infected blood, saliva, or other bodily fluids to contract them. https://www.healthline.com/health/r-naught-reproduction-number Airborne illnesses tend to have a higher Ro value than those spread through direct contact. What conditions are measured by RO? Ro can be used to measure any contagious disease that may spread
Battling infectious diseases in the 20th century the impact of vaccines The number of measles infected people, measured over 70-some years and across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, generally declined after vaccines were introduced. The heat maps below show number of cases per 100,000 people. Battling Infectious Diseases in the 20th
"In a susceptible population, 90% of people exposed to someone with measles will come down with it. You can be across a gymnasium, and if you are not immune to measles, and there's someone in that gymnasium with
measles. Hospitalization. About 1 in 5 unvaccinated people in the U.S. who get measles is hospitalized. Death. Nearly 1 to 3 of every 1,000 children who become infected with measles will die from respiratory and neurologic complications.”
Not content with refusing to protect HCW & patients with #N95MaskMandates in healthcare for #Covid19, BC's Do More Harm PHO Dr. Bonnie Henry continues here #FreedomToInfect spree.
Not just covid, Measles too.
Gets rid of Measles vaccine requirement for schools
#bced #bcpoli #vanpoli #vsb39
Screencap of tweet from Alfred Chien (@alfredchien1), VSB school trustee, white text on black background, reads: As a VSB Trustee, I expect emails -- it's part of the job. But getting 160+ identical emails from the same DPAC admin account, just with different names, isn't advocacy -- it's spam. Let's raise the standard of communication. Our schools deserve better. #VSB #PublicEducation Below this are four screencaps, each featuring lines of emails with the sender 'VANCOUVER DPAC', and title 'Budgeting for Inclusion' and warnings that the emails originated from outside of their organization. The tweet was posted at 21:55 on 2025-04-23 - but has since (this morning, May 4, 2025) been deleted.
Context:
I've redacted the names of the letter writers in these images.
The only thing you're right about, is that our schools - our KIDS - deserve better.
And this board ain't it.
#BCEd #BCPoli #VSB39 #Enough #Inclusion #Exclusion
So is BC’s anti-masker PHO going to finally suggest to bring back masks, especially in schools, hospitals & transit?
Or is Dr. Henry going to be let hundreds and thousands of Measles cases bloom!
and talk about how measles caused encephalitis is good for your immune system?
#bcpoli #bced #vsb39
BC’s mask disinformation saleswoman Dr. Bonnie Henry removes mask mandates from hospital and healthcare.
Let tens of thousands of disease spreaders bloom!
New study show kids face elevated kidney heart Gut risk for years after COVID-19 infection
#FireBonnie
#bced #bcpoli #vsb39
Join me at the #VSB39 French Immersion conference on Feb 14th where I will be leading a workshop on Differentiated Instruction and Inclusion in immersion. Info available on the VSB Pro-D hub.
#educator #bced #vancouver #teacher #differentiatedinstruction
#COPE's Mah said the land, which currently houses a basketball court, was one of the few play areas in the community.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #vanpoli #vanre #vsb39
#COPE's Mah said the fact that the lease was issued up front, with no opportunity to review it, prevents the board from using the land in a way that would better benefit Vancouver's increasing school-aged population.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #vanpoli #vanre #vsb39
"It's not best for the public, it's not best for children and it certainly is not best for education," Suzie Mah, a school board trustee from @copevancouver.bsky.social said
"Because when you talk about $8.5 million, that's a drop in the bucket"
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#vanpoli #vanRE #Vsb39
"Fleming Elementary School community does not want this development on their site," she told CBC News in September. "They made that really clear, and the VSB board has decided to proceed with it." Cheng said the 99-year lease has set a dangerous precedent, as the VSB is the second-largest land owner in Vancouver and could move to subdivide other schools' land for private development.
Vancouver School Board trustee Suzie Mah, who is with the COPE slate, is critical of a decision to issue a 99-year lease to a private developer — saying the $8.5 million paid by Vittori Developments is a 'drop in the bucket.' (CBC) "It's not best for the public, it's not best for children and it certainly is not best for education," Suzie Mah, a school board trustee from the Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE) slate, said. "Because when you talk about $8.5 million, that's a drop in the bucket." Mah said the fact that the lease was issued up front, with no opportunity to review it, prevents the board from using the land in a way that would better benefit Vancouver's increasing school-aged population. She said the land, which currently houses a basketball court, was one of the few play areas in the community.
Conservative Ken Sim's #DeveloperParty ABC Always Bring Cash Rewards developer with sweetheart deal, screws future students
99 year lease for a mere 8.5 million for 1.6 hectares of "surplus" land in East Van to developer Vittori Developments.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#vanpoli #bced #vsb39
I wrote about this issue five years ago and I can’t believe the Vancouver School Board management is still refusing to equip schools with these life-saving devices. What a disgrace. Kudos to students for their advocacy. globalnews.ca/news/1089444... #vanpoli #bced #vsb39
Dr. Avoid Helping Henry Strikes Again
#VSB39 should ignore her & put in AED's
Health min. said BC, like Vancouver schools, follows advice of the provincial health officer, who only recommends putting AEDs in schools with kids or staff w/ medical conditions
vancouversun.com/health/stude... #bced
See new posts Conversation BC Emergency Health Services @BC_EHS Celebrating a #hero with a Vital Link Award for teacher Wendy Swain who performed bystander #CPR and helped save a student’s life in 2017. Reuniting with 911 #dispatcher Colin Terry who took the call and was a key support to Wendy until our paramedics arrived. #ThankfulThursday
Vancouver School Board Trustees who refused to protect students with AED's. Victoria Jung (Chair) Janet Fraser (Vice-Chair) Lois Chan-Pedley Alfred Chien Preeti Faridkot Suzie Mah Jennifer Reddy Christopher Richardson Joshua Zhang Student Trustee
Esmeralda Gomez with a defibrillator in 2019. PHOTO BY JASON PAYNE /PNG Delta put AEDs in secondary schools in 2015, New Westminster installed them in all schools in 2018, and Coquitlam has had them in all district buildings for several years. The Richmond school district recently approved spending $180,000 to buy one or two AEDs for each elementary school, depending on their size, and three for each high school. Swain, the former Vancouver teacher who saved her student in 2017, now teaches in Richmond and is thrilled with her new board’s decision.
Cardiologist Gandhi offered in 2018 to buy an AED for Swain’s school, but she said #VSB39 trustees wouldn’t accept it because of cost & liability
“I was shocked & appalled that they would say no, because other school districts already had them,” said Swain
vancouversun.com/health/stude... #vanpoli
He was revived by lifeguards with access to an AED, and the mother of four argued the same life-saving tools should be in schools.
#vanpol #vsb39 #bced
vancouversun.com/health/stude...
AEDs were installed in every Surrey high school in 2019, which overjoyed mother Esmeralda Gomez, who had launched a petition calling for that change after her 14-year-old son Alex had a cardiac arrest at a Surrey pool. #vanpol #vsb39 #bced
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Tobias Zhang with AED at Point Grey Secondary school in Vancouver Nov. 27, 2024. Zhang has advocated for the devices at schools after his friend died. PHOTO BY ARLEN REDEKOP /PNG Two years ago, Tobias Zhang’s best friend collapsed in the middle of Grade 9 basketball tryouts. The 14-year-old student’s heart had stopped beating.
Vancouver School Board Trustees Victoria Jung (Chair) Janet Fraser (Vice-Chair) Lois Chan-Pedley Alfred Chien Preeti Faridkot Suzie Mah Jennifer Reddy Christopher Richardson Joshua Zhang Student Trustee
Using an AED, combined with CPR rescue breathing, can increase the likelihood of surviving a cardiac arrest by as much as 75 per cent, according to both the foundation and other medical research. ‘I’ll never get that moment out of my mind’ It’s a no-brainer that schools should have these devices, said Dr. Sanjiv Gandhi, the former head of pediatric cardiology at B.C. Children’s Hospital. “I’ve seen many, many kids resuscitated in the field with AEDs, and then they completely recover.” Teacher Wendy Swain urged the board in 2018 to put the devices in schools, after she frantically performed CPR to keep a student alive when the 12-year-old had a cardiac arrest inside a Vancouver school. “It was the most horrifying time of my life,” said Swain, who is
Student watched his friend die: He's angry Vancouver won't mandate life-saving medical device in schools
Raised $ for AED for his school
But heartless #VSB39 trustees said no, even though Surrey, Burnaby, West & North Van & Richmond do
vancouversun.com/health/stude... #vanpoli #bced
Crazy that BC’s CPHO & #VSB39 are such laggards! #FireBonnie
A map of Vancouver with 500m exclusion zones shown around each school
A resolution at the upcoming BCCPAC AGM advocates for a 500m exclusion zone around schools for safe consumption sites. This would effectively prohibit them from Vancouver. #vancouver #vsb #vsb39 #bccpac
