It’s high time the Greater Victoria District School Board took their own walk in the snow. It is increasingly clear the board is dysfunctional and toxic.

Now, while not open to other opinions nor other voices at the table, they threaten the provincial government with legal action if they intervene.

Trustees are elected to serve the needs of the community, not their own agendas. Maybe the discussion needs to be more about whether school boards have become a help or hindrance in the education system.

I cast my vote with the Ministry of Education to do what is necessary to rectify this ongoing situation.

Norm Tandberg

Esquimalt

The Greater Victoria School Board should be terminated and a trustee put in place. The board has obviously lost touch and is unwilling to consider the needs and requests of the community, parents and students they serve.

Their stance of having “ultimate oversight of all educational programs” speaks volumes about their willingness to work collaboratively.

In the words of the Esquimalt and Songhees chiefs, “The board has failed repeatedly to listen from a place of humility, openness and mutual respect.”

Every member of the board should be served their walking papers.

Pam Bevan

Victoria

I went to Central Junior from 1956 to 1959. At that time, the paved area in the school yard running parallel to Fort Street east of Moss to Fernwood had several rows of bike parking stalls.

I used them daily, they were always full. Most bikes had carriers for paper route deliveries after school.

Now that same area is all car parking, no bikes in sight. Isn’t that ironic with all the new bike lanes, in fact a new bike lane on Fort Street is 10 metres from the parking lot on school grounds.

I guess most of the kids today get to school by bus or parents dropping them off. So much for bike lanes.

Paul Baldwin

Victoria

Re: “Junior hockey players embarrassed country,” letter, Jan. 7.

While I may agree that the unsportsmanlike penalties could have been reduced, bitching about under 20-year-old boys crying after losing perhaps the biggest sporting event of their life is not only a bad take, it’s detrimental to our society.

A society where men........

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