#TDSB

[dipshitsoap]

not to be that bitch, but pleasepleasePLEASE reblog for sample size

#adhd #autism #polls #neurodivergent #nd #dyslexia #canada #healthcare #tdsb #education #canadian #dyscalculia #dyspraxia

[antianblog]

“50% reservation to one school is unfair ! Stop it!🛑 https://chng.it/Rnk6GD5LHM

#tdsb #lottery system #50% reservation #Youtube

[bcb-and-b-368-lindsay-road-40]

Mister Neem, you are not a high school science teacher anymore!

So, now what?

View On WordPress

#Audio Engineers Society #Bruce Men&039;s Shed #dailyprompt #dailyprompt-1862 #education #frustration #isolated-work-site #resiliance #retirement #TDSB #YRDSB

[papamama-ca]

#TDSB #多倫多地區教育局 #非殖民化

[siegestagecombat]

Bloor CI (TDSB) - Improv Workshop

"Chris's Improvisation workshop was a highlight of the year for my Grade 9 students. They were engaged and energized by this workshop, and are now able to more clearly provide offers and think on their feet when creating in the Drama Classroom. " ~ Alison Blair

#Bloor #TDSB #Improv workshop #Highschool Drama #Workshop #High #School #Improv #Toronto High School

[nurhanarman]

We had a fantastic time at @brebeufcollegeschool_tcdsb performing two back to back Concert Under Construction events. What wonderful students who followed the music attentively and came up with such great questions during the Q&A. They clearly have an excellent arts program @arts_brebeuf_tcdsb. Thank you for having us, and we hope to be back! #tcdsb #tdsb #torontoschools #torontoeducation #musicinschools (at Brebeuf College School) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpQoxyBgNBM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#tcdsb #tdsb #torontoschools #torontoeducation #musicinschools

[curiousmastermindz]

TDSB Twitter Video | TDSB School Closure | TDSB Snow Day

#youtube #tdsb

[muirneach]

i hope a ceiling fan falls on this annoying ass couple in my school

#cool it with the pda brother we do not need to see that shit #this is a public tdsb high school. be serious

[dreamertrilogys]

killing and fucking biting can they just tell me if i have asynchronous or virtual school tmrw

#i hate the tdsb <3 #.txt

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A former principal who sued the Toronto District School Board after he said he suffered workplace harassment during an anti-racism training session has died by suicide.

Richard Bilkszto, 60, worked for the TDSB for 24 years, primarily in adult education. He retired in 2019, but continued to serve as a fill-in principal on contract, most recently at Burnhamthorpe Collegiate Institute in Etobicoke.

Earlier this year, Bilkszto sued the school board, alleging that his reputation was “systematically demolished” during two anti-Black racism training sessions in the spring of 2021 when, after he challenged some of the speaker’s comments, he was singled out and accused of supporting white supremacy.

Bilkszto allegedly suffered “severe emotional distress” and had to take a stress leave as a result. He filed a “mental stress injury” claim to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, which allowed the claim and provided compensation for two months of lost earnings. [...]

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada, @vague-humanoid Original post.

#cdnpoli #Toronto #education #racism #white supremacy tw #suicide tw

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Mike Ramsay

Published: Mar 7, 2024

Late last month, the public learned that the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) through its Equity, Anti-Racism & Anti-Oppression Department issued a teaching guide claiming the Canadian education system is “colonialist” and designed to uphold the dominant white culture. The document, entitled “Facilitating Critical Conversations,” specifies that “education is a colonial structure that centres whiteness and Eurocentricity and therefore it must be actively decolonized,” and “schooling in North America is inherently designed for the benefit of the dominant culture (i.e., white, middle-upper class, male, Christian, cisgender, heterosexual, able-bodied, neurotypical, etc.)”. It adds that, “race matters—it is a visible and dominant identity factor determining people’s social, political, economic, and cultural experiences.”

While the school board has since temporarily removed the guide pending review after the Ontario Ministry of Education called it divisive, it is important that this thinking which has captured our school systems not be ignored. 

That this handbook was actually produced and distributed by the TDSB did not come as a shock to me, because, in my view, it is representative of what is taking place at other school boards right across Ontario. A reasonable question to ask is how all of this came about.

Having served as a trustee for 24 years, I would suggest it emerged because of the work of frontline activists who truly believe in their cause and that the system is stacked against racialized students. However, many others in leadership positions, who have other motives, simply see this as an opportunity to enrich themselves. They did this by pretending to address the activists’ perception of the issues.

As a Black trustee and past chair of a large school board (WRDSB), I often wondered what good could come from paying DEI consultants upwards of $500.00 an hour to teach kids that if they are white, the successes they experience are not due to personal effort. Meanwhile, racialized students are being taught that despite personal effort, their chances of success are diminished because society is racist and therefore biased against them.

The fact is that we have both white and racialized kids who are doing well academically. Conversely, we have white and racialized kids who are not doing so well. What I have found as a member of my board’s discipline committee is that the kids (from all backgrounds) who are not doing well usually have other issues that are at play, including, but not limited to significant behavioural issues that are impacting their ability to learn. However, you can’t tell this to the proponents of DEI, who have been busy organizing events to celebrate and take credit for the academic success of racialized students who I believe were, for the most part, never in danger of failing school in the first place. The credit should go to the parents and caregivers who worked and continue to work hard to encourage and support their children.

Thankfully, with the passing of each day, more and more people are beginning to question the need for school initiatives that are fixated on identity politics. They are coming to realize that certain aspects of DEI instruction can actually lead to greater prejudice and even harm, as highlighted in a recent study released by the Aristotle Foundation and authored by Professor David Haskell. 

Haskell’s report shows that DEI related to “anti-racism” education and its promotion of “white privilege” doesn’t make participants more sympathetic to disadvantaged Black people as DEI trainers claim, and can in fact make them more hostile toward poor white people.  

As he elaborates, “Teaching students about white privilege, a core component of the DEI curriculum, does not make them feel more compassion toward poor people of colour but can reduce sympathy [and] increase blame…for White people struggling with poverty.”

In light of Haskell’s overwhelming evidence, I feel school boards should be required to justify the expense and existence of DEI in their organizations. Moreover, if it is doing harm as his research shows, do we not have an obligation to use legislation to stop the practice immediately in our classrooms?

I would say we do. And that is why I agree wholeheartedly with parent Liz Galvin who recently told the Halton District School Board: “Trustees, when your equity and inclusion policies are used to generate administrative procedures by un-elected DEI proponents that contradict the aims and prescribed goals of said policy, then you have an obligation to insist that they be scrutinized, amended and or removed.” 

It seems straightforward, but the practice will not stop if it is left solely to the discretion of the Ontario NDP supporting majority which dominates most school boards.

This is where the Progressive Conservative government of Premier Doug Ford comes in. Even though his government has made it clear through their 2023 Better Schools and Student Outcomes Act (Bill 98) that they want boards to be dead focused on tangible measurable learning achievement, rather than on faddish so-called “social justice” experiments, boards continue to double down on these DEI initiatives. I don’t know if the government is tiptoeing around the issue out of fear that the far-Left radicals entrenched in our education system will attack them. More and more parents and education workers from all backgrounds across our province are paying closer and closer attention to the damage being done. It is time for the Ford government to respond firmly and issue clear directives to boards to end these divisive practices.

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You can tell it's a cult because they don't care about evidence.

The way to combat this is the same as combatting religion. You say, prove it. You're asking us to sink a tub of taxpayer money into your program. So, let's see your statistics. Let's see your before and after metrics. Let's see how you measured the success of your training program and the results. Let's see what we can expect for ourselves based on your success elsewhere.

They can't and won't. They'll instead morally brow-beat you with words like "white supremacy" and "danger" and "harm." Despite them making truth claims - that is, statements that are supposed to be taken as factually true - part of the scam is that they'll even claim that asking for this sort of evidence is itself part of the problem. This is the same tactic as a priest threatening you with hell to sell you salvation, or a salesman frightening you with murder and rape to sell you an alarm system.

At that point you say, so, no statistics, no metrics, no results, huh? And you invite them to leave.

#Mike Ramsay #DEI #DEI must die #diversity equity and inclusion #diversity #equity #inclusion #DEI bureaucracy #DEI consultants #antiracism #antiracism as religion #neoracism #woke #wokeness #cult of woke #wokeism #wokeness as religion #corruption of education #ideological corruption #ideological capture #religion is a mental illness

[eusuchia]

LRB- it's incredible to me that you can basically get fired from a job as a journalist or teacher or public servant here for repeating things in those haaretz op eds. I have been thinking every day about the teacher who was suspended from TDSB in 2021 for sharing the most basic 'decolonization of Palestine' information with other teachers while gaza was under active fire like this country is spineless beyond parody

[porterdavis]

Paging Ron DeSantis

If you're going to teach history, be honest about it. Otherwise it's just propaganda.

#truth and reconciliation #blackhistorymonth

[vague-humanoid]

@el-shab-hussein @quasi-normalcy

[zozo-01]

[grumbles in stupid textbook, stupid university, stupid assignments, stupid TDSB for switching the games last second and making me miss my sister's final, stupid exams making me miss ramadan and eid with my family, stupid leafs for giving me hope, stupid caffeine high that may have not exited my system]

#a h h h h h h h h #perpetual migraines my beloatheddd #there are other stupid things i shan't mention #because i don't wanna be confronted for being a bitch ;-; #i am one but i cannot rn #vent zo vent #this is zo speaking

[siegestagecombat]

Silverthorn CI (TDSB)

"Chris is a true professional. My drama classes LOVED having him! He did a great job holding their attention, and is clearly an expert stage fighter. I highly recommend him for your class! Excellent person to work with."  ~ Tyler Rizzuto

#stage combat #siege stage combat #stage combat workshop #high school stage combat #siegeto #gta #high school workshop #high school #TDSB #Silverthorn CI #workshop