If you wonder why the Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) is such a hot woke mess, look no further than their proclamation Wednesday of International Pronouns Day.
The announcement is posted on the WRDSB website alongside a video of activist education director Jeewan Chanicka sitting on a table welcoming students to the new school year wearing what appears to be native dress (Chanicka says has Polynesian Indigenous roots.)
It is also on the board’s Twitter feed with only select Twitter users the board feels are appropriate (or in sync with their causes) to comment.
Using the wrong pronoun, as in “she” instead of “they,” can be “extremely hurtful, damaging and offensive” in particular to transgendered people, the board says.
The WRDSB blurb encourages supporters to post their own pronouns on social media and teachers to discuss the topic during any team meetings. The write-up also recommends that people watch videos about trans issues and pronouns to educate themselves.
Of course the woke cabal of NDP trustees — most of them aging baby boomers– all have joined the pronoun cult. It is interesting to note that board chairman Scott Piatkowski – who is the subject of lawsuits from cancelled teacher Carolyn Burjoski and cancelled trustee Mike Ramsay – has the pronouns he/him on his trustee page but not on his re-election page.
Trustee incumbent Jayne Herring does include the pronouns on her re-election Twitter page, however.
So does Laurie Tremble, who labelled me and True North “alt-right” in her Code of Conduct complaint about black trustee Mike Ramsay.
It is also worthwhile to note that the equity and justice activist Chanicka does not include any pronouns either on his education director or his personal Twitter pages.
Is this a case of “do what I say,” not “do what I do”?
The WRDSB website adds that knowing and using a person’s correct pronouns make people feel “valued and respected” and “affirms their gender identity.”
I hate to pour cold water on their assertions but most students – except for any loud-mouthed activists – likely couldn’t care less about being referred to by the proper pronouns.
Parents also tell me they hate that this nonsense is being rammed down their young kids throats, at least those parents who are aware of it.
I suspect what really makes students feel respected and valued is being able to read, write, add, subtract, multiply, divide properly, to learn how to think critically and to have that critical thinking acknowledged.
This is exactly why parents have to start paying more attention to the trustees who are fighting this leftist propaganda often to great pushback. Both Mike Ramsay and Cindy Watson at the WRDSB are doing just that.
I’ve asked this many times but will again: Where the heck does education minister Stephen Lecce and Premier Doug Ford stand on all of this cult nonsense?
Are they content to let the students of Ontario be indoctrinated in such a blatant way or Ontario school boards to become the laughingstock worldwide?
It seems they are.
