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Bonnie McBride

@mcbride5.bsky.social

Inclusion and Education advocate on the unceded territories of the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc. Proud adoptive mom. ED @ Inspire Kids FASD. She/her. You are safe with me.

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FASD caregivers in BC!!

Connect with your community at this FREE conference in #Kamloops this September!

Learn, share, grow, and connect with the FASD community!

Register today!

05.08.2025 01:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Thank you MLA Valeriote of the BC Green Party for taking time to meet with us about BCEd issues!

It was an hour well spent to share the needs of kids in BC.

Strong partners, strong convictions, strong will.

We will do better for our children if we work together.

#bcpoli

10.07.2025 02:24 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
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A huge thank you to the TNRD Board for adding their voice to our call for adequate school district funding for #Kamloops SD73.

The province can't continue to ask school boards to operate on 2008 cost models. We are failing kids.

More to come! #bcpoli

@lisabeare.bsky.social @eby-david.bsky.social

30.05.2025 23:58 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? Premier Eby - Invest in BC's Public Schools Now

Every successful music artist was once a music student!

BC has many amazing musicians & artists. We need music and band in our public schools but it's being cut across BC.

Help us save school funding for arts by signing & sharing! #bcpoli

chng.it/fJb2SzvJ5n

18.05.2025 20:50 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Sign the Petition Premier Eby - Invest in BC's Public Schools Now

Premier Eby - Invest in BC's Public Schools Now - Sign the Petition!

Parents, students, & partners are headed to Victoria to demand a better school system for our kids.

chng.it/qbJ9bS2shP

#bcpoli #bced #FundBCSchools

@eby-david.bsky.social @bctf.bsky.social @cupebc.bsky.social @bcsta.bsky.social

18.05.2025 05:02 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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#Kamloops! Come show your support for our schools!

Save the date and come add your name to our growing list of people that think our vibrant community deserves a vibrant and inclusive public school program!

#bcpoli #bced

03.05.2025 16:15 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Hey #Kamloops! Join us to rally for BC school supports on May 10th! Our kids are an investment.

@eby-david.bsky.social @lisabeare.bsky.social

#bcpoli #bced #inclusion

02.05.2025 22:55 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

It's ok! Wear a novelty tie. No one will notice your hobbies haven't changed!

02.05.2025 19:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#Kamloops SAVE THE DATE!!!

Rally for #SchoolFunding and #Education takes place on May 10th!!

Watch for details and how you can support a vibrant community through strong schools!

Students need us! Please step up. Petition, support letters, art and music demos.. #bcpoli #sd73

02.05.2025 17:40 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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Vote your values, Canada!

28.04.2025 23:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

However you vote, make sure you can explain to your daughter why you did....

28.04.2025 17:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Parents of students in #kamloops and surrounding communities call on Province to increase education investments.

#bcpoli #bced

22.04.2025 00:22 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Parents in Kamloops-Thompson SD are preparing a response to the proposed budget for the 25/26 school year.

A $5.7m shortfall will put students at risk & will effect their classrooms, programs, learning.

@bcndpcaucus.bsky.social must step in to support School Boards to fund #BCED

#bcpoli #kamloops

17.04.2025 22:40 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Headed to Newfoundland for amazing learning on moving advocacy to action for FASD!

Youth w/ disabilities were left out of the BC budget in a big way. We need to switch from asking to expecting & there's lots to learn from those ahead of us in the fight.

#fasd #inclusion #bcpoli

07.04.2025 16:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

FAFO.

02.04.2025 00:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Good morning from not-so-sunny Seattle, where the world is coming together to collaborate on moving what we know about #FASD into action!

#inclusion

20.03.2025 15:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Please reach out to your MLA and the Province during this budget process. Consultations are happening in every school district right now. The #BCBudget left families behind. We can't run schools on starvation budgets.

18.03.2025 18:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Schools have been asked to provide mental health support, food security programs, childcare, assessments and therapies, and more without support from the Ministries tasked with those obligations.

It's time to push back and support School Boards in BC.

18.03.2025 18:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

adequate funding, a stable funding model, support for rapidly growing cities, and, above all, a place for every child in BC to go to school.

Too many vulnerable kids are left out when we don't fund teachers, support workers, and programs. 2/

18.03.2025 18:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
empty student desks in classroom

empty student desks in classroom

School Boards across BC are facing difficult choices about how to meet the needs of students with inadequate $$, schools, and resources.

BC has left School Trustees to choose which kids will be left behind.

Parents are calling for 1/

#bcpoli #bced @eby-david.bsky.social @lisabeare.bsky.social

18.03.2025 18:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The RCMP shot a child dead near my home. I didn't think I lived in a place where children weren't safe from the police.

#bcpoli #autism

12.02.2025 04:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Our family is one of the families that feels the inequities of BC's supports for kids very deeply.

It's time for the Province to step up and make real change for us and all the others like us.

31.01.2025 02:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bonnie McBride Families should think twice before sharing their school exclusion stories with the Ombudsperson in BC. There has been much buzz and excitement among caregivers about the Office of the Ombudsperson...

Should you share your school exclusion experience with the BC Ombudsperson?

www.facebook.com/bonnie.clark...

#BCEd #Exclusion #BCPoli

21.01.2025 13:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Sensory bin Sunday! These are taste-safe hot chocolate bins! We love sensory play!

06.01.2025 00:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Best wrapping paper for our teacher gifts this year!

17.12.2024 04:44 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I wish we were doing something like this in Kamloops instead of taking away passive park space for a skating rink.

We're all sports and no recreation here....

14.12.2024 17:57 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Imagine what schools in BC would look like without PAC's and parents, sometimes frantically fundraising, for basics. BASICS!! The latest request in our district? Photocopy paper.

13.12.2024 19:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Very important background info on data collection that informs school decisions in BC.

Police intervention isn't the only (or best) approach to increase safety and connection in school.

13.12.2024 16:58 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

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