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School District Eight in the West Kootenay region is implementing significant changes to its Indigenous education approach, removing dedicated Aboriginal academic success support teachers from elementary schools and one middle school. The district aims to boost student connection and belonging by introducing Indigenous support workers, focusing on relationships, cultural identity, and family outreach. However, parents and teachers express concerns about losing trust and community bonds built over years. The changes have a personal impact on families, with one parent sharing her daughters positive experience in the current program. Despite district assurances, an online petition opposing the changes has gained over six hundred signatures, and passionate pleas for reconsideration have been made at school board meetings.

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