N.S. School Boards Association Community Service - Member's Statement

MS. CLAUDIA CHENDER « » : Mr. Speaker, I rise today to say farewell to the Nova Scotia School Boards Association and school boards across the province. Since 1954, the School Boards Association has supported education and governing school boards and today, as we all know, is their last day.

As the minister said yesterday in Committee of the Whole on Supply, education originally emerged in communities, and school boards, in fact, predate much of the regulation and bureaucracy that now governs our education systems.

It is with gratitude and sadness that I say goodbye to all school boards in Nova Scotia today, and the Halifax Regional School Board in particular. Thank you for all of your service, for your dedication to students and families, for the late-night phone calls, and for participating in democracy in this province. You will be missed.

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