Sept. 5, 2022, is the 100-year anniversary of a singular event in Victoria. On that day in 1922, Chinese-Canadian students in the city boycotted public schools, demanding equal rights to educational opportunities.
In November of that year, with the help of the chair of the school board trustees, George Jay, a policy was developed whereby all the Chinese students from grades 1 to 4 were segregated from public schools. The Chinese community believed that since they were taxpayers, their children were entitled to equality of educational opportunity, as they were here to stay and to become Canadian citizens.
The school protest lasted one year and halted the advance of school segregation. The school board returned to the pre-boycott segregation policy. We can only imagine the courage it took to defy those principals — courage not only of the children but of the whole Chinese community.
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