Here is the Govt of Sask Education Response Planning Team (RPT). Individually I’m sure they’re qualified and good candidates. But collectively, do you think it says something about @PremierScottMoe and @GordWyant that they think six older men could represent all issues? 1

No Indigenous voices. No Francophones. No women nor recent frontline teachers. No representation of education support workers, CUPE or otherwise, and noone speaking for the needs of disabled and special needs kids. No expert on occupational safety.

No. Health. Experts. 2.

It’s not just that it’s not 1956. It’s that all those groups bring unique interests and vital information, highly relative to the issue that, I hope we can agree, are not fulsomely represented by this group. 3.

We don’t have consistent standards to ensure the safe inclusion of special needs kids. We don’t have guidelines for local public health on the threshold for an outbreak.

No one trusts this plan yet. Not doctors, not parents, not teachers. 4.

But we can be. A few extra weeks and money. If BC can delay, so can we. If Doug Ford can spend on 500 school health nurses and 1200 janitors and hire teachers and lease space, so can we! Voters will love you for putting our kids first. 5.

If you don’t do this right, if parents are worried every day if their kids are safe, if they need to stay home because you didn’t get testing and tracing capacity *before* school starts or, heaven forbid, there’s a real outbreak... Well then, As we parents say: consequences. 6.

Do the right thing.

You know what it is.

We *know* you know what it is.

Keep our kids and teachers and families safe. 7x