Dear Editor:
First, a big handshake to you and your fine staff there at the Osoyoos Times for your accurate reporting of the ongoing struggle to keep our high school afloat.
And a salute to the fine local folks involved with the Osoyoos Independent School Committee who have already spent many hours working with the voter’s assembly of Grace Lutheran Church here in town.
I won’t pretend to be a highly educated man, so I thank the good Lord that we have both local men and women here at home, and also on the Internet where, people like me, can borrow knowledge and gain a perspective that we may not have arrived at on our own.
I’ve come to the conclusion, in my mind at least, that this school closure battle goes much deeper than what shows at the surface.
It would seem to me that there is a familiar pattern being used against unsuspecting citizens in town and the proof of it is in the false presentation of a so-called ‘problem’.
In this case, the school district trustees said the problems were financial and the local citizens of Osoyoos were supposedly asked for their opinions to solve it. What isn’t immediately understood is that, no matter what suggestions are made, the people’s opinions were disregarded because the “agenda’ requires the closure of our high school.
It was a predetermined outcome by the trustees who were pushing to close our high school and we now have the proof in the barefaced lies we were dealt by both our school district leaders and provincial Minister of Education.
This is the same pattern used by the United Nations Agenda 21 policy of the New World Order.
I congratulate our local men and women for their fight for our children, who may not yet realize who we are really pushing back against.
For those on the other side of this issue or those yet undecided, I hope you will do some research and connect the dots of what has happened here.
I also hope that when Canada Day arrives, that when you are singing, ‘Oh Canada, We stand on guard for Thee’, that you may even mean it.
Rick Wood
Osoyoos, B.C.
