An email by the principal of a downtown Toronto elementary school to commemorate Somali Heritage Month and Islamic Heritage Month, sent out to hundreds of families, included an image of the ISIS flag.
LONDON, Ont. A school board in southwestern Ontario says it's investigating a report that a teacher allegedly used a racial slur while reciting song lyrics during a Grade 12 English class.
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A Toronto school is looking for a fresh start with a new name after a troubling anti-Black racist incident last year.
The name change will be a fresh start after devastating challenges over the past year – including anti-Black racism, and the Covid-19 pandemic, the renaming request notes.
The school was founded in Parkdale in 1887, and now serves over 700 students coming from many different countries. Many students have arrived recently in Canada and a name change could better reflect the community, the school s administration indicated in a letter obtained by the National Post.
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To make a long story short, the retainer fee I had submitted was eventually returned to me, as the legal counsel wanted to focus on only a few of the most egregious cases. In my particular case, I had obtained a mask exemption based on conscience for my 6-year old son, and after the complete runaround I experienced up and down the school board, where no individual from the principal to the director of education was actually willing to take responsibility in the event of any infringements of the exemption, I decided that I had lost all trust in the system and pulled my son out of school altogether.