by Patti Bacchus on April 15th, 2021 at 2:06 PM
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You’ve got to be kidding me.
After a year of hearing schools are essential to students’ well-being and absolutely must stay open during the deadly pandemic, several B.C. school boards are finding themselves
millions of dollars short in their budgets for the 2021-22 school year.
We’ve heard it over and over again: students need the supports they get at school as much as they need the academic instruction. Many rely on school meal programs and support from counsellors and education assistants. Yet many of those supports are on the chopping block.