Who is responsible for students’health?

I am tired of hearing teachers and parents demanding more and more from government to ensure the safety of their children in school.

It is not Premier John Horgan, Dr. Bonnie Henry nor Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who can prevent your children from getting covid, but the parents and teachers of these children.

COVID-19 is not some bug that will attack the schools from the sky. If the kids are COVID free when they start school, then it is up to each and every parent to manage their own family bubble to ensure their child does not contract COVID.

It is up to each teacher to do the same so they show up in school healthy each day.

It is the responsibility of the school administration to also do the same, and manage the flow of people who enter the school premises. If they can do that, their children will be safe.

It is the responsibility of each and every adult in the school community to ensure the health of the students in their care.

If a parent is not comfortable with the security of their own bubble, then do not send your child to school.

Show compassion for the school population like it is your own family. Take responsibility.

And the sneaky way that it is being approached — doing nothing means you agree to the additional yearly charge, if you oppose, write in and tell them.

People are a little busy at the moment and this kind of backroom attempt to hide where the money went is typical of a city and council that have never, and will never had the courage to critically think and question their staff about finances.

Borrow, borrow, borrow is their motto. What ever happened to not overspending and saving until you can actually afford it?

Oh, yeah, instant gratification; let the next generation pay for it.

Again, just my opinion, but the city of West Kelowna is and has always has been in a financial state of flux, spending money on wants instead of needs, trying to be something it is not.

Debt to asset ratio is not rocket science. Can anyone say municipality for sale? Bankruptcy is not that far away when you overspend.

The reality is, the water treatment facility has to be built according to IHA and health regulations. I get that.

Maybe council and staff should consider a reduction in salary, or cutting some of the pretty programs (flowers on roads) banners, parties, staff vehicles, what ever it takes to make up the financial shortfall.

An overall 10% reduction in all departments might be a start.

Wake up council. Remember when you all took office...

When asked by the media, I said “that when the new members found out what was really going on they would ... their pants.”

Well, now, it’s time to clean up the mess, not make more. Chinese is not an official language in Canada and, by law, all signs have to be in English or French.

I wonder who gave them the go ahead to put that sign up?

What’s more frustrating to me is that I have a great job that pays an above-average salary and I am feeling shut out of the real estate market.

We all know now that one of the major reasons for the housing crisis in Vancouver and other major cities is dirty, illegal, laundered money, much of which is foreign investment.

In Vancouver and other cities in our country we see foreign international students owning condos and luxury cars with ease, driving up our markets and making it harder for locals to even have a chance.

(I blame Gordon Campbell, Christy Clark and Stephen Harper for purposefully and knowingly jump starting this crisis).

But we are still yet to see affordable housing as promised by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier John Horgan.

Is this Chinese-written only real estate sign symbolic of what we are to see in the Okanagan? Dirty laundered money driving up real estate in our own hometowns?

No wonder homelessness is at an unacceptable high.

I’m afraid that even with my good job I’ll be starting up tent city down in Gyro Park.