Her mother, who has another daughter who also attends College Bourget, says her children are afraid to go to school.“She lied to me some days because she didn’t want to go to school, because at school she was not feeling safe,” she said.
In an email to Global News, the school says it plans to work with the family to find solutions to their concerns.‘It was my heart’: Women with heart disease face barriers to care in Canada, report says “Staff members have received training to give them tools to intervene in an appropriate way to help students understand different realities by different students,” said the school’s executive director Philippe Bertrand.
“The school will be accompanied by an expert in order to assess the situation and make sure best practices are adopted when it comes to prevention and intervention so every student feels safe and accepted, despite their differences.”