A mother in the Hanover School Division says she wants results or she will call for the resignation of each school board member and the Superintendent.

Sheena Friesen made that demand to the Hanover School Board Tuesday night. Friesen, who was the leader of two protests in Steinbach last week; one in front of the Hanover School Division office, the other outside City Hall, is against government mandated restrictions that have been placed in schools across our province, with respect to COVID-19.

ents without the mandates. The second petition calls for vaccination clinics to be kept out of schools.

"If the division does not take our petition of about 4,035 signatures seriously to remove all mandates from schools, taking it to the appropriate levels of government, and our newly started petition to keep vaccination clinics out of the school, then we will call for the resignation of each and every board member, especially interim Superintendent Shelley Amos," Friesen told the board Tuesday night. "The buck has to stop with someone. We will also continue to pull our children out of the division and out of harm's way."

Following her presentation, Trustee Brad Unger commended Friesen for her passion but questioned her approach.

"Why would there be threats when we could have just a conversation," questioned Unger. "We've had many presentations, many people have over the years come and spoken to the board and have allowed us to have a bit of a conversation. But what I don't understand is the threats."

"They are not threats," said Friesen.

"They are threats," answered Unger. "You are threatening liability and lawsuit, that's a threat."

Friesen told the board that she has gone to principals, heads of the division and Manitoba Teachers' Society, with each group saying they are just following orders. Yet, according to Friesen, when she spoke with the Education Minister's office, she was informed that school divisions are governing bodies that make their own choices.

As part of her presentation, Friesen told the board that unless these mandates are lifted, parents will continue to pull their children from schools, more and more teachers will quit or go on leave, while substitute teachers will become harder to find.

Hanover Board Chair Ron Falk says the board intends to make a public statement in the coming days.