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When asked: 'what made you want to run for Waterloo Region District School Board Trustee?' I'm overwhelmed with reasons. My exposure to the Board and the manner in which it operates was brought about through my experience navigating concerns our family had regarding the wellbeing of our kids while mandates were in effect, and the setbacks to their education due to the decisions made at the board level.

Bringing forth these concerns resulted in futile responses. 'The educators' hands were tied.' 'The principal's hands were tied.' The WRDSB told me that they were abiding by Public Health's recommendations. When I contacted Public Health, they informed me that the measures being employed were not that of which Public Health had mandated, but rather by the School Board itself. When I continued to persist, I was advised to be a delegate before the board. Parents joined forces and as a collective, we had parents represent hundreds of concerned parents in the region. Nothing was done. Our voices were lost time and time again. More and more parents pulled their children out of the system and continue to, to this day, in search of alternative education options that meet their needs.

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I was deflated to realize I had nowhere to turn with my concerns for the quality of education and wellbeing of my children in the classroom. No one was taking accountably for any of the decisions that were being made. The best answer was 'doing something is better than not doing anything'. Which the data was showing to be so far from accurate. 

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As a parent of two elementary school children, and a taxpayer I’ve watched as matters of extreme concern to me—and thousands of other parents—be outright censored - silenced and deleted by the majority of trustees of the WRDSB and ignored by the Ministry of Education.

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I watched in shock as a majority of members of our board vilified and then punished veteran teacher Carolyn Burjoski for raising valid concerns about sexually explicit materials in our elementary schools.

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I witnessed in disbelief as long-time trustee Mike Ramsay was undemocratically removed from the Board by a majority of his “colleagues” for, in Mike’s words, challenging their radical agenda. Despite calls from Mike for all the details to be made public, our ‘leaders’ of the Board have refused. And to have no response from the Ministry of Education when requests that our voices also be represented by the thousands who voted for Trustee Ramsay be ignored, was telling.

I saw trustee, Cindy Watson, similarly facing outright hostility for raising the concerns of parents. Like Mike, Cindy heard from her constituents about their children being exposed to highly ideological instruction in WRDSB classrooms. Her motions asking for clarity about what’s being taught were overruled and rejected.