This just in from Trish Elliot’s Twitter feed. She’s at the Regina Public School Board meeting where they’re deciding the fate of Cathedral’s Connaught School.

 

She followed that up with…

 

UPDATE: So the school board objected to the characterization of events in the tweets above. Here was their response…

 

And Trish followed up with…

 

So… in short, the School Board didn’t actually vote to officially close the school. They just voted on a report that the school ought to close at the end of the school term because engineers deem it will not be safe much beyond that point.

UPDATE #2: Trustee Carla Beck weighed in on the Connaught controversy, essentially agreeing with the more recent characterization of things…

Here I was sad (not really) that I couldn’t go to the school board meeting myself. But sitting on my butt in my living room I was able basically to scrum three sources through Twitter. And you got you watch it unfold — misconceptions, corrections and all. Neat.