The co-founder for the Parents for Parents Rights group is reacting to the news that members of the public will again be allowed to attend meetings of the Greater Essex County District School Board in-person.
The meetings were closed in June because of safety concerns for staff and board members.
Members of Parents for Parents Rights protested outside the board office on June 20 over gender identity policies and being denied access to the public meeting.
Public attendance will be now allowed at the Tuesday, Sept. 19, board meeting, with the doors opening for public attendance at 6:30 p.m.
A maximum of 133 seats will be available and that number will be monitored by security personnel.
All visitors will be required to sign in and then sign out at the conclusion of the meeting.
Signs, posters and other props will be prohibited.
Co-founder Elton Robinson says while he agrees with the boards decision to re-open the meetings to the public with new rules, he believes the board broke the education act rules.
"Right in the education act the public is suppose to be in public attendance and their suppose to remove anybody that is causing a disruption. Not everybody in those board meetings has been disruptive, but yes I do agree that they have to have personal safety. I think it's a win on both sides to get back to hopefully be able to do some more delegations in person."
He says a security guard should have been at the meetings all along.
"There are some heated topics, besides the topics we're talking about. When you're talking about someone's child, tempers can flare and unfortunately that's why there are marginalized children, so yes, I feel that everything there I think is good."
Robinson says when it comes to attending the meetings in person again, he says he'll wait to see what is on the agenda.
But for now he says he plans on pursuing MPP's and the provincial government.
"I think that's where they real discussion needs to happen is at the provincial level, with the minister of education because unfortunately the school boards are locked in to their view, they've made their stance and I don't think they'll pivot from that."
Meetings will continue to be live-streamed for the convenience of the public.
-With files from AM800's Rusty Thomson & Rob Hindi