Thank-you for Ruining My Weekend, Abbotsford School District

Bradner PAC Vice President works through the weekend to Save Bradner's Rural K-7 Elementary School

By Dawn Lewis, Bradner Parent

This isn't how Saturday nights are meant to be! Thank you Abbotsford School District for ruining my weekend! I can't think of anything else but your reconfiguration proposal or the billions of reasons why your wrong in what your doing. Good luck to the poor shmuck that will have to read my letters and the research I've compiled on the subject. I would normally pass this along with a bottle of sympathy wine but I will be enjoying that while I work through the night... and passing the others to my partners in this endeavour you've created for us.

Children are not numbers nor are they dollars for your districts. Staff deserve more than what you've given them which in the nicest terms is the short end of the shit covered stick. 

I sincerely hope you consider the impact your choices have on the PEOPLE your dictating to. Because they sure as hell matter to me and they are my motivation to fight your insane proposal and your inadequate ability to serve the public education system! 

​I'm only doing a small part. I've got such an amazing team of parents supporting me. All the ones writing letters! All the ones contacting news outlets writing proposals for our school. Creating surveys and responding to them. We as a whole should be so grateful to have each other! For every "small part" we are creating a huge impact!

Tensions grow each day as the Bradner community continues its opposition of the Abbotsford School Board's proposed plan to reconfigure Bradner Elementary from a Grade K-7 - to a K-5.

This proposal is being expedited by the school board leaving parents rushed into a decision to leave Bradner school or risk their children having to attend Eugene Reimer Middle School right beside Rick Hansen Secondary. The majority of Bradner parents are withdrawing their children to cross-district in Langley, register at private schools or home school because they do not want to send their children to end up in Eugene Reimer, Middle Schools in general and want their right to choose what's best for their children to be protected. This plan includes 6 rural farm community schools in Abbotsford. If it goes through hundreds of children will be forced to leave their communities or be bussed nearly ten's of kilometres to inner city schools....!

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Join us!

Join the Facebook group Save our K-7 Schools.

SIGN the ONLINE PETITION 

Please send LETTERS from yourselves, businesses or whomever from all of the communities affected! (the more letters the better) contact info below and spread the word about the meetings, POST SIGNS, lets get all demographics there from the all communities attending - the MEETINGS are:

Tuesday, January 19th, 7pm at Upper Sumas Elementary 
Thursday, January 21st, 7pm at Mt. Lehman Elementary
Tuesday, January 26th, 7pm at Aberdeen Elementary

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016, consideration (Board decision) of the reconfiguration at their regular meeting at the DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION/SCHOOL BOARD OFFICE - 2790 Tims St, Abbotsford, BC V2T 4M7

​Please send all correspondence and letters to: 

Phil Anderson, Phil_Anderson@sd34.bc.ca
Freddy Latham, freddy_latham@sd34.bc.ca
Rhonda Pauls, rhonda_pauls@sd34.bc.ca34.bc.ca OR boardchair@sd34.bc.ca
Stan Petersen, stan_petersen@sd34.bc.ca
Preet Rai, preet_rai@sd34.bc.ca
Cindy Schafer, cindy_schafer@sd34.bc.ca
Shirley Wilson, shirley_wilson@sd34.bc.ca
Kevin Godden, Superintendent, Corissa_Stgeorge@sd34.bc.ca
Trustee, Kevin Godden, Superintendent’s assistant: Corissa_Stgeorge@sd34.bc.ca
Abbotsford School District Contacts can be found here.