Robin Tosczak
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Teacher. @GVTA member & @BCTF 1st VP. Auntie. Odd Fellow. she/her
Victoria, BC
Joined March 2012
Still not sure how you're voting on Saturday? Check out this handy breakdown of where the two parties vying to form government stand on public education, issue by issue: https://t.co/oABY44nwBm
#ITeachIVote #bcpoli #bced #BCElection2024
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From the mouths of billionaires: “The NDP focuses on penalizing the uber-successful one per cent with high taxes that the successful can afford…the successful sacrifice their lives, health, and time with their families, and the lazy voter benefits.” #bcpoli
Chip Wilson really knows how to win ppl over
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Two of BC's largest unions have issued a letter to members outlining what’s at stake for public education in #BCElection2024. “We face a critical choice,” BCTF President @ClintJohnston7 and @CUPEBC President Karen Ranalletta write. Full letter: https://t.co/KnapeUVnMg
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Dear BCTF/CUPE members, Today, we write to express our deepest gratitude for your unwavering support of students in public schools across the province. We are so...
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And he wants a career in public life? Democracy is a participation activity if you can’t even pass the lowest bar of that career choice, facing questions, then maybe find something else to do with your life.
Global News visited Brent Chapman's campaign office on Tuesday morning but he refused to come out and answer questions. WATCH: https://t.co/uUC8JVjG0y
https://t.co/uUC8JVjG0y
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The knee-jerk hate replies to this post are disgusting. @InclusionBC is a valued non-profit organization advocating for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and Conservative supporters are flinging garbage at them. Cut it out, bullies.
Inclusion BC is disturbed by the @Conservative_BC platform on education. Research in Canada and around the world shows us that all students learn better in inclusive classrooms. (A thread🧵) #BCElxn2024 #InclusiveEducation
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If anyone is wondering where the #bcpoli discourse has gone, read the replies. Some folks see the word “inclusion” and respond with the homophobic slur “groomer,” when this is an association that supports people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Inclusion BC is disturbed by the @Conservative_BC platform on education. Research in Canada and around the world shows us that all students learn better in inclusive classrooms. (A thread🧵) #BCElxn2024 #InclusiveEducation
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Inclusion BC is disturbed by the @Conservative_BC platform on education. Research in Canada and around the world shows us that all students learn better in inclusive classrooms. (A thread🧵) #BCElxn2024 #InclusiveEducation
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A few weeks ago I was glad to talk with @HarrisonMooney about the threats of indoctrination, book-banning, and transphobia in #bced. Unfortunately, the BC Conservatives seem set on pushing all three.
“Education is not about politics,” John Rustad said in 2002. Now, if elected, he’s proposing to review B.C. school books to ensure they’re “neutral.” By whose standards? @HarrisonMooney writes. #BCElxn2024
https://t.co/H5bSmsNn9w
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Read this: Unpacking Rustad's Pledge to Review BC's Textbooks via @HarrisonMooney @TheTyee
https://t.co/AU7PuPnDdd
@rbntzk @PublicEdBC
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Educators and advocates are ready for a fight. It’s one they’ve won before.
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The Conservative Party of BC have changed their #bced platform again. Now adding that they will "remove lesson plans, seminars, policy guides, curriculum elements, and practices stemming from SOGI 123." /1
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Call me old-fashioned, but where I’m from (the mean streets of North Vancouver), if you’re a politician needing legal counsel to account for hate, reprehensible conspiracy theories, and guano opinions you’ve expressed… …you should just resign.
Let me be clear, the Quebec Mosque Shooting, Aurora, Orlando, and Sandy Hook were all very real mass shootings — innocent people lost their lives, and we should all mourn these tragedies. What I was trying to say is the whirlwind of US media and commentary makes everything
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It’s a very concerning platform that they have unsuccessfully attempted to sanitize so it appears more mainstream/normal. There are also some oddly specific items in it. Overall, the weirdest and most disturbing education platform that I’ve read. #bced #BCElxn2024 #bcpoli
Some significant changes to the @Conservative_BC education platform yesterday from its first emailed release (left) to a rewritten version on its website (right). - Deleted "remove classroom material that instills guilt based on ethnicity, nationality or religion" to "ideological
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So at this point, a costed platform is still missing & the BC Conservatives' education plan is being rewritten on the fly With healthcare arguably the #1 issue for #bcpoli voters, we still haven't seen that plan; their website has near zero detail General voting day is Saturday
Some significant changes to the @Conservative_BC education platform yesterday from its first emailed release (left) to a rewritten version on its website (right). - Deleted "remove classroom material that instills guilt based on ethnicity, nationality or religion" to "ideological
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An important #bced 🧵. If you care about our public education system in BC you should read this before you vote. #bcpoli #BCElxn2024
The BC Conservative Party has released an education platform that shows a deep misunderstanding of public schools and what students in them need. #BCElection2024 #ITeachIVote #bcpoli #bced 1/9
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The election is on Saturday. Let’s do what we can to ensure the BC Conservatives’ disastrous education platform does not become reality. Schools need more support, not less, and we need a government that will keep working together with teachers.
Each promise represents a leap backward for BC families at a time when we need smart and strategic investment in students and schools — not cuts, privatization, and partisan political interference. 2/9
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The BC Conservatives’ education plan avoids any of the actual needs in #bced & instead distracts with harmful rhetoric targeting 2SLGBTQIA+ students, IBPOC communities & students with disabilities. And it clearly signals an attack on teachers, in a bargaining year no less.
The BC Conservative Party has released an education platform that shows a deep misunderstanding of public schools and what students in them need. #BCElection2024 #ITeachIVote #bcpoli #bced 1/9
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The BC Conservative Party has released an education platform that shows a deep misunderstanding of public schools and what students in them need. #BCElection2024 #ITeachIVote #bcpoli #bced 1/9
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“From the outside, it all might seem extremely weird. But there’s reason for the rest us to be worried about what’s happening in BC. The election there is a glimpse into our future as a country if nothing changes, one where..” 1/2 https://t.co/QFBzxxnaT0
thestar.com
We are watching a wild social experiment play out in B.C., where politicians incubated in extreme online communities are edging ever closer to power.
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