Superintended Lewis threatens to remove Kerry Morris from School Board meeting
I didn’t have plans to record today’s meeting however land sales was on the agenda and Kerry Morris arrived late and began setting up his camera. The meeting was interrupted while the board addressed the issue of Morris attempting to record the meeting; at this point I started my own recording. Again policy 608, privacy concerns and interrupting the meeting were cited as reasons for shutting down the recordings. Morris turned off his camera after being threatened with forceful removal from the meeting.
Live streaming school board meeting
This journey began in October 2014 when I first attempted to live stream the public Board of Education meeting for the North Vancouver School District. The decision to record and stream the meeting was made as the meeting began. A hand held iPad tethered to my cell phone.It quickly became apparent I needed a tripod. As my arms were tired I was grateful when Superintended Lewis demanded I cease recording, however I was also incredibly disappointed.
School Board meetings are public events, are newsworthy and video recording should be standard procedure. Government accountability and transparency was part of my election campaign and I believe video recording of meetings is an important step to allow the media and the public to hold the school board accountable to the decisions they make.
The power of the 8 year old
Eight year old children are capable of a lot more than most people give them credit for!
A group of British schoolchildren may be the youngest scientists ever to have their work published in a peer-reviewed journal. In a new paper in Biology Letters, 25 8- to 10-year-old children from Blackawton Primary School report that buff-tailed bumblebees can learn to recognize nourishing flowers based on colors and patterns.
The greatest lessons in life
“The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.” –- Mahatma Gandh
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