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By Robert Frank<\/b>
www.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n

In a dramatic turnaround, Lester B. Pearson School Board (LBPSB) voted Monday to move forward with a plan to replace its outdated, 12-year-old emergency measures policy.<\/p>\n

Last month, its executive committee voted to shelve the plan, after LBPSB chair Suanne Stein Day objected that it would place too great a burden on the school governing boards that would have to review it. She stated that it would have to wait until after school board elections, slated for Nov. 2, which would effectively have postponed the new plan for another year.<\/p>\n

According to education watchdog Chris Eustace, elected school commissioners voiced their dissent at LBPSB\u2019s subsequent executive committee meeting last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were not happy about the delay, and one of the parent commissioners who sits on a governing board stated that revising the emergency measures plan is a priority and that there would be no problem undertaking the effort to review it,\u201d Eustace told The Suburban.<\/i><\/p>\n

Commissioner Ruben Fazio asked that the item be added to the agenda of LBPSB\u2019s March 31 council meeting, where his fellow commissioners subsequently voted unanimously to circulate the new policy immediately.<\/p>\n

Conflict of interest allegations<\/b><\/p>\n

The meeting\u2019s question period also proved tempestuous, after former educator Luc Horne asked Stein Day to state how long Eustace would be banned from asking questions during LBPSB public meetings.<\/p>\n

Stein Day called for security personnel to remove Horne, after he exceeded the three minutes that she allocated for his question.<\/p>\n

She declined to say how long the Eustace ban would last, stating that the matter was in the hands of LBPSB\u2019s lawyers who, according to Eustace, remain unresponsive six weeks after receiving his attorney\u2019s query. Eustace was previously silenced by Stein Day\u2019s predecessor, Marcus Tabachnick.<\/p>\n

Another parent, Cindy Mac Donald, protested that LBPSB dissolved the governing board at her school soon after it raised questions about perks that school staff was receiving, possibly from suppliers.<\/p>\n

She said that teachers boycotted the governing board after the parents on the elected body asked about \u201cgifts, yoga lessons, [equipment for] teachers\u2019 lounges and monthly coffee and donuts from an outside organization.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen parents started asking questions, the teachers rebelled because it would have changed the way that things were done,\u201d Mac Donald complained. \u201cHow can you justify [dissolving the governing board] to avoid questions about how money is spent, who the donors are and how service contracts are awarded? How can you reconcile such heavyhandedness without any discussion?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was required by the Education Act,\u201d Stein Day replied. \u201cYou have to have 50 per cent of parents and 50 per cent of the governing board in order to have quorum.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will investigate this conflict of interest,\u201d Stein Day promised.
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