Robinson said the teachers knew they had to turn those feelings around and build confidence, deepen understanding of anti-Black racism and deconstruct it, and develop an appreciation for the value, integrity and humanity of all people. A course like this should become a ministry mandated course in the senior grades, in Grade 11 and 12, he said. We think that, if 20 years from now, every student who comes out of a high school in Ontario understands anti-Black racism and as a result of that understands racism and anti-oppression and critical race theory and critical thinking in general, we think our society will be in a far better position. This is education as a transformative thing.
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The death of George Floyd last May reignited a global conversation about systemic racism. At Newtonbrook Secondary School in Toronto, it even inspired a much-needed curriculum on anti-Black racism.
Four Black high school teachers developed the Grade 12 course titled Deconstructing anti-Black racism in the Canadian North American context after a roundtable with concerned students. As a young person, myself and the other educators, we grew up through this system of education and we know what s been delivered, D. Tyler Robinson, one of the teachers, told blogTO.