Fourth name enters school board race
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This article was published 26/09/2020 (2146 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
A fourth candidate for the upcoming Brandon School Division board of trustees byelection has entered the contest.
Stay-at-home mom and red seal carpenter Breeanna Sieklicki filed her paperwork on Thursday, joining Jason Gobeil, Brock McEwing and Jason Splett in the race.
A mother of two girls, Sieklicki’s kids aren’t in elementary school yet but she told the Sun on Friday that she’s looking to leave her mark on the local division ahead of them entering the school system. It’s her first time running for public office.
“That way I can understand what the schools are doing and how to improve them and stuff,” Sieklicki said. “I’m very strong on primary and secondary education, being a red seal carpenter myself. I feel like the opportunities for children in many areas, be it college or university, starting in primary and secondary schools is a good start like (Crocus Plains Regional Secondary School) does.”
She said she thinks that kids who don’t go to schools like Crocus, which have vocational classes, sometimes miss out on opportunities to learn valuable skills. If elected, she would see about expanding that kind of programming to other schools in the division.
Another issue she’d like to address is the lunch programs offered by the division’s elementary schools. She wonders if there’s a way to expand the lunch programs to make sure that every student who wants it has access to it.
She’d also like the lottery system that determines who goes to École Harrison and St. Augustine School looked it.
“I know they have a large amount of students that try to get in every year,” she said. “Class sizes being small is great, so we don’t want to change that, but maybe we could figure out a way to expand programming there because I know a lot of students and families want their children to go to a French immersion school or they want them to have that little bit of faith-based education.”
With the COVID-19 pandemic going on, she praised the school division for coming up with an unprecedented plan to deliver education safely but said that it’s the perfect time to look at how remote learning options can be expanded and made available to more students.
“I feel like a few of the parents I’ve talked to while campaigning have said that remote learning would have been a great option for them because they don’t feel comfortable sending their kids to school. Right now, it feels like there’s either homeschooling or (sending) their kids to school. Manitoba’s kinda lost that in-between ground.”
Because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, she said she’d look into using platforms like newspapers and social media to get out her platform in a safe way.
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