TDSB Scandals

The Tragic Case of Richard Bilkszto

Toronto principal Richard Bilkszto was widely acclaimed by family, friends and colleagues for the care he showed towards his students over the course of his 24-year career. He was a specialist in adult education, focusing on schools where students were aged 18 and up, having not graduated on time or just recently arrived in Canada as immigrants. When Bilkszto retired in 2019, a superintendent from the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) commended his great work: “You have proven your excellence in equity, instruction, entrepreneurship, student engagement and breaking new ground for communities where chronic struggles, mental health and newcomer status often brought more frustration than success”.

Some parents of kids at Toronto’s first, and only, public school with all gender-neutral washrooms are calling on the board to add separate facilities for boys and girls, saying they have concerns around safety, hygiene and comfort.

… There are moms and dads who support this, and some who are indifferent. But a group representing roughly 125 parents in the elementary school say kids have peeked beneath stall doors and kicked them while girls are inside, and a boy once exposed himself to a girl. They also say the washrooms, which have only toilets and no urinals, are dirty because urine is left on seats, with boys suspected of being the main culprits. And, they say the current setup can be uncomfortable for menstruating girls who need to unwrap a sanitary napkin or tampon within earshot of boys.

Muslim parents feel their religion isn’t being respected because a Muslim girl cannot remove her hijab in front of males — something she may do as part of wudu, a purification ritual that is performed before prayers, which includes washing the face.

It isn’t just Muslims, the TDSB Groomers hate normalcy and seek to indoctrinate their perversion in children.

White, South Asian and East Asian students in Toronto seem to be a problem for Canada’s largest public school board. They crowd the merit-based specialty education programs offered by the district.

The response from the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) to this overrepresentation has been to axe merit-based admissions and opt for a semi-random lottery system that discriminates based on race. Now, one-fifth of seats in Toronto’s public specialty programs are reserved for Black, Middle Eastern, Latin American and Indigenous students. 

Racism is always the answer.

Parent groups called on Education Minister Stephen Lecce to conduct a provincial review of the Toronto District School Board after a researcher allegedly plagiarized parts of a report on its specialty programs and schools.

A review of TDSB research supporting a lottery for programs focused on arts, math, science and technology was conducted by University of Toronto economics professor Marcin Peski, who alleged that parts of the report were misleading and plagiarized and contained false citations and quotes from non-existent sources.

Not the first time the incompetents at the TDSB have been caught.

The Toronto District School Board says more than 300 students have been involved in violence on school property so far this academic year.

In a report on school safety, the TDSB says a total of 323 students have been involved in violence on school premises between September and April.

The board — which is sharing the report with trustees at a committee meeting today — says the number of students involved in violence this academic year so far is the highest since at least 2018-19.