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Re: Sign this petition to allow girls in robotics! (at Timmins Public library)!
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Originally Posted by Ty Tremblay View Post
Mrs De Bonis explained to me that boys academic and literacy skills don't improve over the summer break therefore this program would only be offered to boys.

Nowhere in the change.org petition do they mention the library's finances. I was pointing out that throwing money at the library wouldn't solve the root problem raised specifically by this girl and her mother
Let me get this straight, you want me to take at face value, the accuracy and completeness of a virtual petition posted on the internet??? Please - I'm not that naive.

In addition to taking the Internet at face value being a low-payoff bet; nowhere in my post did I mention the library's finances either.

Please read again all of what I wrote. I didn't focus on finances. I raised the notion that telling someone they are wrong isn't the only way to react to an incompletely described situation like this; and I focused on ensuring interested young women's needs would be met.
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