#hwdsb

[wedr-ownyourdreams]

we don't care about the trauma you'll suffer to get there! all we want is for you to graduate and get out of our hair already!! and do it with a 95+ average!!!

[allthecanadianpolitics]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/hwdsb-ward-4-elections-1.7392632

With the mail strike, the usual election pamphlets didn't get delivered this year.

I you're in the city of Hamilton and care about public education, please check to see if you're eligible to vote in the Ward 4 by-election for school board trustee.

Election day is on Jan. 6, while advance in-person voting takes place on Jan 4 and 5. Polls will open from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. Polling stations will be located at the Rosedale Arena (100 Greenhill Ave.), the Sir Winston Churchill Recreation Centre (1709 Main St. E.), and BGC Hamilton-Halton (45 Ellis Ave.). Online voting will also be tested during the byelection. Information gathered will help the city decide on voting methods for the 2026 municipal elections, according to the city's announcement.

[pikalin38]

Feb 4, 2025 update

Okay HWDSB. As mentioned in the email, the internet is back to normal on Tuesday, and guess what... the iPad Challenge has concluded. The next iPad Challenge will be on February 26 and 27 due to Kenzie's commitments with work meetings (MDT-SEIE on the 26th and the Service Leaders Meeting on the 27th). A change from Hill Park on the 26th to the Ed Center on Feb. 26 because of a scheduled meeting on the 27th with the Supporting Project Search meeting on Microsoft Bookings replacing my scheduled appointment.

[fatrocka64]

Summer 2024 was the most stressful time that I ever had since 10 years ago!

I had a fun time during my trip, but with my uncle getting surgery in the hospital and anxiety over furry fandom events and festivals, it was just unacceptable! I also had memories and flashbacks to what happened during the summer of 2014, but that was way worse than this year's summer. I was dealing with anxiety over the Lego movie's popularity, and then up to 10 years later, I had anxiety and disgusting behaviors that will make Twlight Sparkle vomit! I am not fucking kidding..

I had lots of fun this summer but based on what happened 10 years ago.. it was probably the most challenging and difficult summers I ever had! And it even had beaten 2016 standards. Imagine what the furry fandom could do in the wrong hands.

I think that the HWDSB should be responsible for having a teacher so sympathetic to zootopia so that I can teach her a lesson on obsessive behaviors. There has to be at least major consequences for what happened inside the walls of my high school.

I have been begging and pleading with my family to start a lawsuit against the HWDSB for brainwashing me into the furry fandom.. but they keep saying that it's too expensive. I don't blame the furry fandom. But I blame the Hamilton school board for the madness that unfolded during the timeline of 2014 to 2016.

Even whatever happened 10 years ago in my family's home was the school's fault!

Goodbye, summer of 2024.. hello, Halloween!

I am more excited for Halloween to come. Christmas is the only thing that should be canceled.. since my brain is darker than Joyful

I hope that I can go to anthrocon next summer but always keep my promise but it doesn't happen.. I am afraid of having Furnal Equinox taken away from me. But it will be worth it to take a break from it for a while.. goodbye and have a Happy Halloween!

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“A movement led by Black and racialized students forced the Hamilton Wentworth District School Board to remove police from schools.

Around 5pm on Monday, hundreds of students and supporters occupied Main Street in front of Hamilton City Hall. Six hours later, demonstrators cheered and danced when trustees voted to cancel the relationship between the school board and Hamilton police.

Gachi, a student and community activist, stood on the back of a moving van and addressed the jubilant crowd: “Guys… We just won! Through tireless community advocacy and efforts, we have successfully pushed for the complete termination of the police liaison program!”

Organizing to win

Students have fought for years to end a program that embeds police violence and racism at the heart of their schools. The group HWDSB Kids Need Help led the campaign to end the Special Resources Officer (SRO) program because “police officers in schools intimidate and harass Black, racialized, poor, immigrant, queer, trans, disabled, poor and immigrant students.”

Research by the group collected experiences of Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB) students and staff. In the words of one student, “the SRO program is unsafe and racist. My Latinx and Black classmates and I would always be called to our lockers first when the cops would do ‘random’ searches of lockers. They were supported and accompanied by the vice principal. All students knew where they would start.”

While celebrating their victory in the streets Monday night, several former students said they’ve been “fighting for this for years.” Ruby told the crowd, “this termination should have happened sooner. Black and Indigenous students should not have had to suffer waiting for this vote.”

Masked and physically-distanced, through hours of the live-streamed trustee board debate, demonstrators on Main St. cheered speakers and poets, shared hand sanitizer and snacks, and booed amplified voices of trustees when they praised police.

Sabreina led an impromptu teach-in while power to the board meeting live-stream was restored. She paced slowly while telling seated demonstrators that “the school board doesn’t want to do this work. They’re doing it because we forced them to.”

Sabreina contrasted the mere hours it took the board to suspend the Black Mentorship Program when officials didn’t like its report on racism in February, with the board’s ongoing, years-long refusal to act on student demands to end the police liaison program.

Even last week, a majority of trustees continued to support the SRO program. They used procedural stall tactics in hopes of deflating the surge in student power amid the global rebellion against anti-Black racism and police violence.

“We don’t stop until racism stops!”

Sabriena demanded trustees clear the way to a police-free future because “Black lives matter not only when Black death is viral. Black lives matter always.”

When dark clouds gathered in the sky at sunset, organizers handed out blue and yellow ponchos. Music filled the street while people danced and laughed in the rain. A voice cried out: “We don’t stop until racism stops!”

The storm passed as quickly as it had arrived. As clouds broke, demonstrators chanted: “I believe that we will win.”

A few hours later, they had.

Reflecting on the win, Layla drew links between the student campaign and anti-capitalist organizing. “Police-free schools are just one step toward a safer community,” Layla said. “The ultimate goal of this work is abolition. It is a world without prisons, which serve to separate people from their communities and create generational trauma. It is a world without policing, which acts as a tool of the state to surveil and criminalize Black and Indigenous peoples. It is a world without capitalism: a system that pits us against one another, and forces us to leave one another behind. It is reimagining from its roots a system that will care for every person in our society.”

Within minutes of the trustees’ vote, HWDSB Kids Need Help tweeted:

“WE WON! TONIGHT CELEBRATE, WE REJOICE, WE CRY AND LAUGH! TOMORROW WE ORGANIZE, MOBILIZE, AND WIN.”

Activists in Hamilton have struck a major victory and given serious momentum to movements to defund, disarm, dismantle, and abolish police everywhere.” - James Cairns, “Students Kick Cops Out of Schools in Hamilton.” Spring Magazine. June 23, 2020.

[elecman108]

You know what I don’t get? Schools restricting only some YouTube videos.

Like, at my school, most of Markiplier’s videos are blocked. All of LixianVG’s videos are blocked. They’re mostly video games, right? Makes sense. YouTube gamers’ videos, #1 time waster. However random videos from Game Theory are blocked. I understand, I mean WHO WANTS THEIR CHILDREN LOOKING AT THE SCIENCE BEHIND ASPECTS OF VIDEO GAME?! OH THE CALAMITY!! *eye roll*

Now this is something I have noticed personally. I am a nerd (no shit) and I have a playlist on YouTube of all my favourite nerdy songs. A grand total of 194 videos currently exist in my music playlist. I was stoked to listen to “Get The Gang Back Together” by Miracle of Sound. Music. Overwatch. It’s lovely.

It’s blocked at the school.

I mean, I understand the Video Gamers being blocked. But music? What the fuck. And it wouldn’t be bad except for the fact it’s only a select few of MoS’s videos. 77 videos aren’t blocked. And it’s not just MoS, if I were to go on any game-fandom-centric channel with music, 90% chance the song I’m looking for is restricted.

//Rant over.

This, this thing right here, is why I use YouTube to MP3 sites regularly. So I can listen to my damn music at school. >_>

[recapturedmoments-blog1]

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[ontarionewdemocrats-blog]

This weekend I watched a silly 1935 pirate movie. It really made me think... think about your important news for May 6th, 2019

Ford government slammed for ‘secrecy’ around India trade mission https://globalnews.ca/news/5240194/ford-government-slammed-for-secrecy-around-india-trade-mission/ 

Ontario eliminates funding for problem gambling research, agency to close by summer https://globalnews.ca/news/5240402/ontario-government-cuts-problem-gambling-research-organization/ 

Ontario cannabis stores who failed to open by deadline facing more penalties https://globalnews.ca/news/5240487/ontario-cannabis-retailers-more-penalties/ 

List of municipalities against public health cuts grows across province https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2019/05/05/list-of-municipalities-against-public-health-cuts-grows-across-province.html 

Ford’s strategy of hitting municipalities with budget cuts, service downloads is ‘risky’ politics, experts say https://www.thestar.com/news/city_hall/2019/05/03/fords-drip-drip-drip-downloading-deemed-risky-politics.html 

Toronto officials press Ontario to reverse course on child care, warning loss of subsidies https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto/article-toronto-officials-press-ontario-to-reverse-course-on-child-care/ 

Here’s what you could be paying for child care in Toronto after Ontario’s latest cuts https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-child-care-calculations-1.5122246 

Report reveals alarming – and growing – racialized income divide in GTA https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/05/06/report-reveals-alarming-and-growing-racialized-income-divide-in-gta.html 

Farmers, grocers fear the worst as province launches review of Ontario Food Terminal https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-food-terminal-review-1.5120289 

Ontario tree nursery to destroy about 3 million trees due to provincial cutbacks https://globalnews.ca/news/5243528/tree-nursery-destroy-millions-trees-ontario-cuts/ 

Sweeping changes buried in housing bill called ‘doomsday scenario’ for Ontario’s endangered species https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/05/04/sweeping-changes-buried-in-housing-bill-called-doomsday-scenario-for-ontarios-endangered-species.html 

‘Relatively more affordable does not mean affordable’: Experts lukewarm on changes to Ontario development charges https://www.qpbriefing.com/2019/05/03/relatively-more-affordable-does-not-mean-affordable-experts-lukewarm-on-changes-to-ontario-development-charges/ 

Who are the winners – and losers – in the Ford government’s new housing supply plan https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/who-are-the-winners-and-losers-in-the-ford-government-s-new-housing-supply-plan-1.5121476 

Premier Doug Ford hosts Alberta Premier Jason Kenney in love-in for carbon crusaders https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2019/05/03/premier-doug-ford-hosts-alberta-premier-jason-kenney-in-love-in-for-carbon-crusaders.html 

Saskatchewan premier plans to appeal carbon tax decision to Supreme Court https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/carbon-tax-saskatchewan-appeal-1.5121414

How the Ford government will decide on university, college funding https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-doug-ford-university-college-post-secondary-grants-1.5121844 

Ontario student group issues report protesting education cuts, mandatory e-learning https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2019/05/05/ontario-student-group-issues-report-protesting-eduction-cuts-mandatory-e-learning.html 

CUPE becomes second education union to request early start to bargaining https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/2019/05/03/cupe-becomes-second-education-union-to-request-early-start-to-bargaining.html 

Unique drop-in kindergarten program gets top grades with parents and kids https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/05/04/unique-drop-in-kindergarten-program-gets-top-grades-with-parents-and-kids.html 

Annual Fraser Institute secondary school rankings released https://torontosun.com/news/provincial/annual-fraser-institute-secondary-school-rankings-released 

Scarborough RT fleet reached ‘critical’ vehicle shortage last month https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/05/04/scarborough-rt-fleet-reached-critical-vehicle-shortage-last-month.html 

Explainer: The Ontario government’s plan to review highway speed limits https://globalnews.ca/news/5242056/explainer-ontario-government-review-highway-speed-limit/ 

Uber Eats announces insurance for bike couriers in Ontario https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/uber-eats-insurance-couriers-1.5122197 

Water levels on Lake Ontario expected to rise, says conservation agency https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/lake-ontario-water-levels-quinte-conservation-1.5123223 

Ontario makes funds available for Muskoka residents affected by flooding https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-funds-muskoka-residents-affected-flooding-1.5122824 

Muskoka suffers second ‘100 year flood’ in six years https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-muskoka-suffers-second-100-year-flood-in-six-years/ 

Brampton residents speak out in favour of Peel Region during town hall https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/05/05/brampton-residents-speak-out-in-favour-of-peel-region-during-town-hall.html Communitech laying off workers after provincial cuts https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/communitech-laying-off-workers-after-provincial-cuts-1.4408326 

New war memorial to recognize Northwestern Ontario’s First World War volunteers https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/thunder-bay-new-memorial-1.5123418 

Officials still examining house fire that killed 5 in northwestern Ontario First Nation https://globalnews.ca/news/5242501/house-fire-officials-northwestern-ontario-first-nation/ 

Marineland, Vancouver Aquarium shipping beluga whales out of Canada ahead of new law https://globalnews.ca/news/5238289/marineland-vancouver-aquarium-shipping-beluga-whales/ 

266 fallen police officers honoured at 20th annual Ontario police memorial ceremony https://globalnews.ca/news/5242104/266-fallen-police-officers-honoured-annual-ontario-police-memorial-ceremony/ 

HWDSB reviewing classroom strategies after mom says 4th grader left in ‘storage closet’ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/hwdsb-reviewing-classroom-strategies-after-mom-says-4th-grader-left-in-storage-closet-1.5120930

Five laid-off Hamilton teachers talk about what the cuts mean for them and their students https://www.thespec.com/news-story/9336203-five-laid-off-hamilton-teachers-talk-about-what-the-cuts-mean-for-them-and-their-students/ 

Auto insurance rates keep rising in Hamilton. Here’s why https://www.thespec.com/news-story/9337130-auto-insurance-rates-keep-rising-in-hamilton-here-s-why-/             

Fitzroy Gordon left a legacy of resilience and inclusion https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2019/05/05/fitzroy-gordon-left-a-legacy-of-resilience-and-inclusion.html 

‘Daniel are you still up?’ My surreal 11:18 p.m. call from Premier Doug Ford https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2019/05/03/daniel-are-you-still-up-a-surreal-1118-pm-call-from-premier-doug-ford.html

On Flooding: “Something Is Going On” Ford Says. But What Does That Mean? http://ontarionewswatch.com/onw-news.html?id=1277

Ford’s cuts are falling heaviest on Toronto https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/2019/05/06/fords-cuts-are-falling-heaviest-on-toronto.html 

Will Windsor’s new hospital heal the city, or do it harm? https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and-architecture/article-will-windsors-new-hospital-heal-the-city-or-do-it-harm/ 

Why conservatives secretly love the carbon tax https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-why-conservatives-secretly-love-the-carbon-tax/

LEVY: Political Action 101 – history repeats itself with teacher unions https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/levy-political-action-101-history-repeats-itself-with-teacher-unions 

LILLEY: Teachers preparing for war with Ontario Premier Doug Ford https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/lilley-teachers-preparing-for-war-with-ontario-premier-doug-ford 

LILLEY: Time to stop flirting with the commies https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/lilley-time-to-stop-flirting-with-the-commies 

GUEST COLUMN: Ford government just cleaning up Liberals’ mess https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/guest-column-ford-government-just-cleaning-up-liberals-mess 

What were all the Doug Ford critics doing when the Liberals ran up the bills? Egging them on. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto/article-what-were-all-the-doug-ford-critics-doing-when-the-liberals-ran-up-the/ 

Move over, Doug Ford. Jason Kenney is Canada’s new disrupter https://www.thestar.com/politics/political-opinion/2019/05/03/why-albertas-new-premier-now-wants-to-win-ontarians-over-jason-kenney-says-he-needs-our-help.html 

‘Our democracies appear ever more fragile’ https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2019/05/05/our-democracies-appear-ever-more-fragile.html

[wedr-ownyourdreams]

in the meantime, as we wait for more responses... i made the hwdsb website a little more honest 🥰

[allthecanadianpolitics]

https://bayobserver.ca/eight-candidates-register-for-vacant-ward-4-hwdsb-trustee-position/

[pikalin38]

Feb 7, 2025 update

Hamilton, this is EXCELLENT news for you. The icy road conditions have cleared for Friday's travel commute to work and school, meaning the HWDSB is open once again. Sunday: Roo Mai Krai Sot, The Witch, When the Stars Gossip, Running Man Monday: Ossan's Love Thailand, My Dearest Nemesis, Cinderella Game, Game of Love, Incantation Tuesday: My Dearest Nemesis, Cinderella Game, Game of Love, Incantation Wednesday: Cinderella Game, Love and Scandal, Incantation Thursday: Pentor 2025, Cinderella Game, Love and Scandal, Study Group, Incantation Friday: Cinderella Game, ThamePo Heart That Skips a Beat, Undercover High School, Buried Hearts, Newtopia, Incantation Saturday: Take Me Out Thailand, The Witch, Undercover High School, Buried Hearts, When the Stars Gossip, Running Man Binge: Love of the Divine Tree

[thenetionalnews]

Less than half of student body participate in Hamilton public school board census - Hamilton

Less than half of student body participate in Hamilton public school board census – Hamilton

Just under half of the student body took part in the first-ever provincially mandated student census conducted by Hamilton’s public school board over the past year. The Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB) ‘We All Count’ survey was voluntary and focused on questions about student identities, particularly race and gender, to address systemic barriers required by Ontario’s Anti-Racism…

[hineini]

deceptive shit

Didn’t that leave me to cringe due to its deceptive marketing.

My mom’s talking to somebody on the phone, making it known that our employer (she works for the HWDSB too, albeit as a teacher) showed the director outside raising the trans flag yesterday since it was the Trans Day of Visibility. Does that mean much of anything when queer people, whether staff or students, without regard to their position under the rainbow umbrella, run the risk of being subject to abuse for coming out in response to small-talky questions? Nope, it definitely doesn’t; as an asexual dyke who won’t hesitate to voice her realities when asked I’ve been called to many a meeting through the years due to homophobic staff freaking that I went personal during conversations (that weren’t started by me as a rule of thumb). I don’t have it hard calling people out if they say anything transphobic too since I’m allied with trans people and feel I have authentic understanding due to everything I went through to ensure my real name was legal rather than a certain 4-letter word that was written on the certificate my mom received hours after my appearance on earth. If I could, I’d so want to call the board out for its blatant hypocrisy. As it is, I’m doing everything I can through my second complaint they’re disregarding my human rights as a gay and differently-abled child of God, may that have success.  

[the-or-the]

Hwdsb(my school board) is a fucking joke

Everyday the school has to play the national anthem, for the people that died for this country, yet whenever im on time I start fucking seething because Every. Single. Fucking. Time. The school finds the most fucking cheery ass upbeat disrespectful bullshit mix between the french and English versions. I usually stay home til at least 8:48, so I don’t feel like im disrespecting my country, and the men and women that died for it. Remembrance day isn’t enough.

[tommyunitedstates2]

Education Reimagined 📚 🤔 What do today’s educators need to create connected learning experiences? Canadian education leaders and educators from @yyCBEdu, @HWDSB, and @sd43bc discuss in this 2-part series. Watch on demand ↪️ https://t.co/h4PuQOehB7 #EDUReimagined https://t.co/ygnvf1pCoY

— Microsoft in Education Canada (@MicrosoftEduCA) Dec 13, 2021

[myweddingsandevents]

Open SmartNews and read "Former student wants Hamilton public school board to replace 4 trustees following racism investigation" here: https://share.smartnews.com/m7SH

To read it on the web, tap here: https://share.smartnews.com/zuMr