A transgender teacher who caused an uproar among Oakville parents for wearing huge prosthetic breasts with protruding nipples to shop class was given a free pass by the Halton District School Board (HDSB) and allowed to continue sporting her obscene style of dress to school.
HDSB education director Curtis Ennis insisted that employers must make allowances to ensure their employees are able to “express themselves in accordance with their lived gender.”
This was even as the story of Kayla Lemieux’s highly unprofessional wardrobe choices made international headlines.
In late September, education minister Stephen Lecce asked that the Ontario College of Teachers review professional dress standards for teachers. But three months later we’ve heard nothing further.
The teacher continues to wear her outrageous outfits to school, now accompanied to class by a police guard.
At the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) – headed by critical race theory disciple Colleen Russell-Rawlins – officials have reported that this year is on track to be the most violent since 2000.
Shootings, stabbings, gang fights, along with stories of staff and students being terrorized at York Memorial high school should have convinced the board to bring back the cops in schools program they axed in 2017.
But no, Russell-Rawlins and the board’s woke trustees opted to continue with the same “hug-a-thug” methods that haven’t worked for the past five years now freshly repackaged in a report called: A Collaborative Approach to School and Community Safety.
The Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB), headed by another activist who refuses to capitalize his name, recently sent out a highly intrusive survey asking kids as young as Grade 4 to provide details on their sexuality and gender.
Those parents and trustees who try to resist and/or expose the focus on gender ideology and anti-black racism are intimidated, called “racist” and efforts are made to cancel them.
Yet we hear very little from our education minister, Stephen Lecce, who claims to care that students learn the kind of skills and curriculum that allow them to graduate to good-paying jobs.
He recently announced an upgraded technology curriculum that will give students, as he calls it, a “competitive advantage.”
And he stood proud as a peacock when a settlement was reached with CUPE’s ever-complaining education workers that would keep kids in class.
But what good is keeping kids in class when they are stressed by violence, forced to digest trans ideology or be taught by a trans teacher sporting humongous fake breasts, or are constantly indoctrinated that they are oppressors because they are of Caucasian descent?
Talking tough doesn’t just mean with the teachers’ unions. It means telling the activist board directors and the woke baby boomer trustees that they need to focus on their mission to teach kids the kind of skills that will allow them to graduate literate in math, reading and writing.
It should have meant clearing out the equity hangers-on in the education ministry who found their way there during the Kathleen Wynne era.
People like Patrick Case, the assistant deputy minister of the education equity secretariat came, to the ministry under then education minister Mitzie Hunter.
In my view, bureaucrats like him have done more damage to the school system with their Education Equity plan – one which encourages equity of outcomes for all students, a relaxed suspension and expulsion program and assumes there are systemic barriers for racialized, Indigenous and low-income students.
PDF-It’s little wonder the Ontario education system is in crisis and parents are crying out for help.
But Premier Doug Ford and Lecce have developed a largely hands-off approach as if they’re either blind to what is really happening, afraid to speak up or are indoctrinated by the woke mob.
The minister’s press secretary, Grace Lee, argued that Lecce has done plenty.
She says he’s acted to eliminate seniority-based hiring, ensuring that educators are hired based on merit and qualifications.
(One only has to look at the composition of the administration at the TDSB, for example, to see seniority-based hiring has been replaced by equity-based hiring with many visible minorities put into high-paid positions whether qualified or not.)
She says the government has also refocused the curriculum to ensure students get “back-to-the-basics” with life and job skills into everyday instruction.
Lee adds that they are expanding opportunities for the modern economy such as financial literacy, STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) and coding, while improving access to the skilled trades.
“Minister Lecce believes that the focus of school boards should be on student achievement and helping students graduate, learn skills, and get good-paying jobs,” says Lee.
It should be the focus but school boards have lost their way.
Their mission to teach the basics has been replaced by indoctrinating innocent minds.
In my view, if Lecce can’t see the problems or refuses to deal with them, he should be replaced. He’s doing no service to Ontario students.
