This just in from Trish Elliot’s Twitter feed. She’s at the Regina Public School Board meeting where they’re deciding the fate of Cathedral’s Connaught School.
Connaught to close in June
— Trish Elliott (@Trish_Elliott) February 12, 2014
She followed that up with…
Amend that: board says Connaught to close in June. People may say different
— Trish Elliott (@Trish_Elliott) February 12, 2014
UPDATE: So the school board objected to the characterization of events in the tweets above. Here was their response…
@PaulDechene @prairiedogmag perhaps a little fact checking is in order prior to blindly retweeting. http://t.co/uVRCq0Rppm
— ReginaPublic Schools (@RegPublicSchool) February 12, 2014
And Trish followed up with…
@RegPublicSchool @PaulDechene technically voted accept report that contains a closure recommendation, not official vote, think, pls check
— Trish Elliott (@Trish_Elliott) February 12, 2014
So… in short, the School Board didn’t actually vote to officially close the school. They just voted on a report that the school ought to close at the end of the school term because engineers deem it will not be safe much beyond that point.
UPDATE #2: Trustee Carla Beck weighed in on the Connaught controversy, essentially agreeing with the more recent characterization of things…
@PaulDechene Motion to receive report and direct admin to identify options for temp relocation of students. Report at http://t.co/eatUvWFp4n
— carla beck (@marsdenbeck) February 12, 2014
@PaulDechene oops http://t.co/uHGmrMmuPz
— carla beck (@marsdenbeck) February 12, 2014
@PaulDechene Motion also to advocate for expedited decision from Ministry of Ed about proposed rebuild of Connaught.
— carla beck (@marsdenbeck) February 12, 2014
Here I was sad (not really) that I couldn’t go to the school board meeting myself. But sitting on my butt in my living room I was able basically to scrum three sources through Twitter. And you got you watch it unfold — misconceptions, corrections and all. Neat.
