The Toronto District School Board’s panicked handling of a fight between two Grade 7 students has left their school, so good it’s known internationally as the public equivalent of a posh private school, near ruin.
To recap the fight: On March 27, a 12-year-old boy was allegedly chased around a classroom by a 12-year-old girl he’d been making faces at as she gave a presentation. At some point, he unsuccessfully threw a chair to block her. She allegedly swung at him but missed; he swung back and connected, leaving her with a bloodshot swollen eye and a nosebleed.
Racko officially retired in 2017 but still worked as a supply teacher through this year. The situation at Glenview, she told the Post, where board officials allowed their senior staff to be shrieked at and degraded, has left her terribly sad.What made the encounter especially tricky for a school board that prides itself on its correct, equity-driven practices was that the boy is white and the girl is black.
T.Q.’s statement of claim against the TDSB was filed last month in Ontario Superior Court. The school board has responded by filing a notice of an “intent to defend” the suit, but no other documents. The Post has heard an audio recording of a woman who appears to be T.Q. shouting at a school official that day: “It’s not f—ing hearsay, you retard!”
As she ranted at full volume in the Glen Park halls that day, one source says that a teacher was so troubled by what she was hearing she initiated a lockdown, barricading her young students in a classroom. But the alleged racial slur should have been reported to Sirois or Hasan, as well as T.Q. Those were the “gaps” for which Sirois apologized in an email to Glenview parents; he also acknowledged that anti-Black racism of course exists at Glenview, as it does elsewhere.
Read article - not 4 facts, which should B based on what actually occurred not hearsay: I read 2 C how CB would dismiss pain of racism. CB if U want 2 learn abt profit-making fr/ owning slaves U ask master, right? If U want 2 know how it feels 2 B slaves-U ask salves, right?
I would take the paid-leave for as long as possible: nice to get a pay-cheque without working for it! MoneyForNothing