‘Pervasive absenteeism’: The TDSB says sick days cost the board $213 million last year

… As for why teachers are calling in sick, the report identified a number of internal and external factors, including, but not limited to, socio-economic factors, workplace culture and employee experience, insufficient disability and WSIB resources and “absenteeism acceptance,” defined as a teacher’s “tendency to accept absenteeism, recognizing an effective response to absenteeism without attempting to change it.”

The report noted that there are higher rates of educator absenteeism in areas of the city with higher populations of low-income families, racialized students and students with special education needs.

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Toronto school board seeks to enshrine anti-Palestinian racism concept as antisemitism soars

Amid record-breaking levels of antisemitism across the Toronto District School Board, activists are demanding the definition of “anti-Palestinian racism” be included in the district’s anti-racism strategy because they fear it might hamper students’ ability to speak about Israel and Palestine.

At a board meeting on June 5 , the TDSB released the strategy Combating Hate and Racism: Student Learning Strategy Update 2024 , prominently featuring the term “anti-Palestinian racism.”

A vote to adopt it was scheduled for June 11, but concerned parent Aaron Kucharczuk said the TDSB has postponed the motion because it coincides with the Jewish holiday of Shavuot. Dozens of delegates critical of the new policy have requested to speak before the board to share their concerns about it.

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LEVY: Ontario’s review of harmful DEI workshops all smoke and mirrors

Last July 25, just 12 days after Richard Bilkszto’s tragic suicide, education minister Stephen Lecce announced a review of the circumstances leading to his death.

Calling the allegations raised in the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) principal’s $750,000 statement of claim against the board “serious and disturbing,” Lecce said he wanted to ensure what happened to Bilkzsto in a series of DEI workshops led by Kike Ojo-Thompson never happened again.

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Anthony Furey: Toronto School Board Should Apologize for Racially Divisive Guidebook

The Toronto District School Board (TDSB), Canada’s largest such board, has shelved a controversial teaching resource after public and political outcry.

The booklet, called “A Teacher Resource for Challenging Oppression in TDSB Classrooms,” is a race-obsessed document that was distributed to all teachers in the board.

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GOLDSTEIN: Public education was supposed to unite us, now it divides us

The broken promise of taxpayer-funded, public education was that it would help unify our diverse society by bringing students from all backgrounds together to learn, and to learn from and about one another.

Last week’s controversy involving the Toronto District School Board – the largest public school board in Canada – was the latest example of how public education today divides students, teachers, the education system and society itself into a world of victims and oppressors.

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LILLEY: TDSB calls education a colonial structure centred on whiteness

Now showing more anti white bullshit

The radicals at the Toronto District School Board are at it again, reminding us all that “education is a colonial structure” and that “White Supremacy” must be dismantled in our schools.


I was calling out the ant-white racism at the TDSB since 2012 or so. Of course in those days it wasn’t as fashionable as it is today.

The TDSB called the cops in an effort to silence me. It was a sick schoolboard then, it’s worse now. A prophet in his own time etc etc etc …

TDSB Sics Police On Sarcastic Blogger

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TDSB generates so many hate incidents they can’t be bothered to inform parents of every one

TDSB – Rotten to the core

Toronto school board moves away from communicating every hate incident to parents

TORONTO – Canada’s largest school board says it has moved away from communicating every hate- or racism-related incident to school communities after finding that letters about the cases could lead to further harm.

The changes in the Toronto District School Board procedures drew attention recently after two parents raised concerns about how an elementary school handled reports of hateful graffiti on site.

The parents, who are school council co-chairs at McMurrich Junior Public School, say they were “disheartened” when they heard from their children last week about swastikas drawn in a girls bathroom at the school.

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TDSB says ‘distinct strategy’ of next pogrom should end anti-semitism in schools

TDSB says it’s working on a ‘distinct strategy’ to combat antisemitism in schools  

The board’s response, sent Friday afternoon, goes on to say that a “distinct strategy on addressing antisemitism has been initiated and work has also begun addressing other forms of hate experienced within our classrooms,” including anti-Black racism and Islamophobia.


Homeschool your kids. The TDSB is a shithole of woke racists. It has been for years.

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WARMINGTON: Toronto councillor urges TDSB parents to stop their kids’ protests against Israel

TDSB – Rotten to the core

A Toronto City Councillor has done something the Toronto District School Board says it can’t do.

He is asking parents to encourage their children to stay in school and not join in on a pro-Palestinian rally billed as a class walkout scheduled for Thursday.

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“I’m bracing for a storm.” Some Toronto-area teachers fear another year of tumult and safety concerns

While students held up cellphones to capture the fight on video, the teacher managed to pull the two boys apart.

If she hadn’t stopped them, “his skull would have been cracked open,” reasoned the teacher, who works at a secondary school in Etobicoke. The Star has withheld her name to protect her from potential repercussions for speaking out.

It makes us stronger or somethin.

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Jamie Sarkonak: DEI trainers can’t play victim after building careers on race shaming

Toronto school principal Richard Bilkszto was bullied by an anti-racism trainer over “his whiteness” — his questioning of her assertion that Canada is a more racist place than the United States. In July, he took his own life. The victim here is easy to spot. It’s the dead man.

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Joel Kotkin: Richard Bilkszto won’t be the last victim of the diversity-industrial complex

The suicide of former Toronto school principle Richard Bilkszto, 60, was one that many of his associates believe was prompted, at least in part, by vicious attacks from an “anti-racism” instructor. After he differed on her assessment of pervasive structural racism, she held up his comments as an example of “white supremacy.” In the progressive-dominated education bureaucracy, this stands as among the worst of sins.

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Disturbing audio captures racism grifter attacking principal’s ‘white supremacy’ before he killed himself

An anti-racism instructor was recorded mocking and laughing at a beloved Toronto principal who challenged her teachings — holding him up as an example of white supremacy “resistance,” according to a report.

Richard Bilkszto, 60, later committed suicide.

Bilkszto’s July death came after diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, instructor Kike Ojo-Thompson proclaimed Canada was more racist than the United States, a statement the principal pushed back on.

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Conrad Black: Richard Bilkszto’s death was the end result of a culture intent on defaming itself


The tragic case of Richard Bilkszto, which shocked Canadians and was publicized internationally, highlights in their most extreme form, the dangers of the militant imposition of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) dogmas. On this occasion, Bilkszto, a well-respected Toronto District School Board (TDSB) principal, attended compulsory DEI sessions in which the lecturer, Kike Ojo-Thompson, upbraided him for disputing her statement that Canada was a more racist country than the United States. She apparently responded unpleasantly that, among other things, ”You in your whiteness think that you can tell me what’s really going on for Black people.” In a second session, she allegedly held Bilkszto’s comments up as a real-life example of being a white supremacist.

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