Schools

SCHOOLS – Better policies needed, says task force on sexual misconduct

June 19, 2018 // 0 Comments

By MEL ROTHENBURGER Better communication with parents, improved reporting, staff training and new policies and procedures are needed to address sexual misconduct in schools, [Continue]

SCHOOLS – 1,000 students to graduate from 15 local schools and programs

May 26, 2018 // 1 Comment

June will be a busy month for School District No. 73 (Kamloops-Thompson) as nearly 1,000 students from 15 schools and programs mark the end of their secondary school careers. [Continue]

SCHOOLS – Annual report card shows some local elementary schools lagging

April 22, 2018 // 1 Comment

Several Kamloops district elementary schools have some improving to do, according to a new report card issued by a B.C. think tank. The annual Report Card on B.C.’s [Continue]

SCHOOLS – Teamwork, collaboration are key parts of local education

March 6, 2018 // 1 Comment

By JOE SMALL Trustee, School District 73 IT GOES WITHOUT saying, providing education to more than 14,000 students in several communities across hundreds of kilometres of the [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Time for some plain talk about sexual violence in our schools

February 19, 2018 // 0 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IF WE’RE GOING to have a serious discussion about sexual violence in our schools, let’s be crystal clear what [Continue]

EDUCATION – Navigating the big, bad world after graduation

June 10, 2017 // 0 Comments

“AND NOW GO, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being [Continue]

SCHOOLS – Spring break 2018 will be one week after talks with teachers fail

June 8, 2017 // 1 Comment

School District No. 73 will have a one-week spring break in 2018. Following several weeks of talks with the Kamloops-Thompson Teachers Association, senior school district [Continue]

SCHOOLS – 15 schools, 1,000 students begin graduation-ceremony season

May 26, 2017 // 2 Comments

It will be a busy June for School District 73 (Kamloops-Thompson) as nearly 1,000 students from 15 schools and programs get set to end their secondary school careers and move [Continue]

EDUCATION – In-class activism replacing real education

May 19, 2017 // 2 Comments

By MADDIE di MUCCIO ISSUES SUCH as Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ rights, multiculturalism, feminism, indigenous culture, identity politics and environmental stewardship have [Continue]

EDUCATION – Deeper deficits spurred by increases in public school spending

February 26, 2017 // 1 Comment

By CHARLES LAMMAM and HUGH MacINTYRE The Fraser Institute With governments across Canada preparing to release their budgets, Canadians can expect headlines announcing new [Continue]

EDUCATION – An education system’s slow but steady journey to inclusion

February 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

IN 2008, Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologized to the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada for the crimes committed against them in the residential school system. It’s sometimes [Continue]

SCHOOLS – Nine of 10 elementary schools showing improvement were public, according to annual ranking

February 14, 2017 // 0 Comments

Independent elementary schools in B.C. continue to perform well above average but this year more than 90 per cent of all elementary schools in the province that showed [Continue]

St. Ann’s Science winners preparing for Regional Science Fair

March 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

NEWS/ SCHOOLS — Seven amazing science projects featuring 10 high school students from St. Ann’s Academy have been selected for entry in the upcoming Cariboo-Mainline [Continue]

New Kamloops-Thompson school board takes office

December 8, 2014 // 0 Comments

NEWS/ SCHOOLS — The board of trustees will be sworn into office tonight (Monday) for the Kamloops-Thompson School District. Joan Cowden, Kathleen Karpuk, Joe Small, Meghan [Continue]