Time to hold miscreants in education responsible for their actions
Teachers who involved students in rally should be fired
It is firing time.
But what is unclear is whether it is not only teachers who should be fired but the entire management of the Toronto District School Board (TDSB), too.
The TDSB has faced controversy before for seemingly tolerating intolerance toward the Jewish community. In May 2021, for example, material was circulated to teachers that an investigator later determined included content that was antisemitic. The board had even censured a Jewish trustee who raised concerns about those materials. Earlier this year, Jewish parents alleged they were denied the right to speak at a debate over the adoption of an anti-Palestinian racism policy.
But last week’s field trip fiasco brought things to a new plateau.
As widely reported, teachers from several TDSB schools obtained consent for children as young as eight years old to observe a march in support of the Grassy Narrows First Nation, which suffers from mercury pollution. Parents were reassured in the consent form that the students would not be participating. They were told to wear blue shirts.
Those blue shirts, most parents apparently only later discovered, identified the children as “colonizers” and “settlers.” And video clips from the rally shows that they did more than observe — they also marched, with some participating in anti-Israel chants such as “From Turtle Island (Canada) to Palestine, occupation is a crime.” Some of the kids reportedly returned home with stickers saying “Zionism kills.”
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