The school board meeting with MLAs usually happens on an annual basis, but this one was notable because of the large number of new faces at the table. Both Cockrill and Domotor are brand new MLAs and the ten-member Living Sky board itself has five new trustees, so for them it was as much a chance to get to know one another and their concerns for the first time.
Even more notable was that this particular MLAs meeting was the first to be conducted entirely virtually on the Microsoft Teams platform due to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions.
Not surprisingly, the pandemic and all the issues the school board faced in dealing with it came up frequently during the meeting. But board chair Ronna Pethick expressed pride in the division’s staff for how they worked to ensure students “continue to learn, continue to succeed and continue to grow,” all the while keeping them safe.