NDP MPP introduces bill to recognize “systemic racism” in Ontario schools

Ontario New Democratic Party MPP Laura Mae Lindo proposed a bill on Thursday to embed “anti-racist strategies” in the province’s education system.

“Students, parents and education workers should never experience racism in Ontario’s public schools and post-secondary institutions,” said Lindo. “Yet every month we learn about new incidents of racism that leave students, families and their communities reeling.”

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“Rittenhouse Should Pay for his Crimes”: ASU Students Demand the Expulsion of Kyle Rittenhouse

Students groups like MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztlán), Students for Socialism, Students for Justice in Palestine and the Multicultural Solidarity Coalition are organizing a rally this week to “get murderer Kyle Rittenhouse off [the] campus.” He is not on campus since he is enrolled as an online student. However, Rittenhouse has expressed interest in in-person attendance at ASU. Students and faculty are being called to the rally to “protect students from a violent, blood-thirsty murderer.”

h/t Marvin

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Administrator banned from school grounds after exposing critical race theory ideology

A school administrator in Indiana was locked out of his email and banned from school grounds Wednesday after leaking information that students were being instructed in critical race theory ideology.

“As of one hour ago, Indianapolis Public Schools has suspended my access to email & Google Drive,” Anthony Kinnett, an administrator with Indianapolis Public Schools, posted to Twitter Wednesday. “I am currently banned from going to any IPS school building or hosting any professional developments.”

The administrator said the punitive actions are in response to Kinnnett’s leaking of a video earlier this year that showed an “equity administrator” teaching middle school students that systematic racism affects all levels of society and the environment, according to a report .

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Toronto School Board Bans European Children’s Literature, Destroys 5000 Books

The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) has banned a plethora of European children’s literature and destroyed 5,000 books for being “offensive.”

As reported by the National Post, some 30 books were burned for “educational purposes” and then the ashes were used as fertilizer to plant a tree.

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Manhattan school to sort kids by race during social justice discussions

The Lower Manhattan Community School will conduct the controversial exercises as part of its mission to “undo the legacy of racism and oppression in this country that impacts our school community,” according to an email sent to parents.

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Racial equity consulting firm meets with Loudoun County school board, says “adults don’t change easy” and “public schools would be better if adults didn’t show up” 🤨

Make no mistake: Wokeness is a religion. It has all the sick hallmarks of a cult, more specifically, but it’s a mainstream one with support from institutional power.

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How climate change is causing grief, anxiety and depression

Actual Canadian Climate Catastrophe

Our planet is changing. So is our journalism. This story is part of a CBC News initiative entitled Our Changing Planet to show and explain the effects of climate change and what is being done about it.

Some communities are particularly affected by ecological grief, said Cunsolo, including Indigenous people, farmers and fishers. “People who are really connected closely to the environment for livelihoods and culture,” she said.

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Arizona School Board Officials Kept Secret Dossier on Dissident Parents and Employed a Private Investigator to Gather Oppo Research on Them

Over the last six months or so, it has become more and more common to read stories about school boards that have essentially gone to war with the parents of the children in the school system they oversee.

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“The Triumph of Stupidity”

It’s the last period in Joseph Lamantia’s Ethics and Religious Culture (ERC) class at John. F. Kennedy High School in St-Michel. The lesson of the day: comparing the beliefs of Judaism to Christianity. Islam will be covered in the coming weeks.

Pencils squeak and sneakers tap against the floor as the class of secondary two students in matching J.F.K. Knights hoodies fill out their fact sheets. Once the activity is over, the students will share their answers with partners.

The point is to open the students’ eyes to the fact that the three faiths are borne of the same Monotheistic God, Lamantia explains. He hopes they see the similarities and how worshippers of the different faiths aren’t so different.

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Mainstream media comes to the defense of ‘Gender Queer’ author after parents claim it features ‘child pornography’

A controversial book that caused firestorms of parental anger upon being found in the libraries of public schools from Virginia to Rhode Island, showing graphic sexual imagery about the sexual and gender identity awakening of teenagers, is being defended by the mainstream press and publishers.

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