Last July 25, just 12 days after Richard Bilkszto’s tragic suicide, education minister Stephen Lecce announced a review of the circumstances leading to his death.
Calling the allegations raised in the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) principal’s $750,000 statement of claim against the board “serious and disturbing,” Lecce said he wanted to ensure what happened to Bilkzsto in a series of DEI workshops led by Kike Ojo-Thompson never happened again.
The Toronto District School Board (TDSB), Canada’s largest such board, has shelved a controversial teaching resource after public and political outcry.
The booklet, called “A Teacher Resource for Challenging Oppression in TDSB Classrooms,” is a race-obsessed document that was distributed to all teachers in the board.
The broken promise of taxpayer-funded, public education was that it would help unify our diverse society by bringing students from all backgrounds together to learn, and to learn from and about one another.
Last week’s controversy involving the Toronto District School Board – the largest public school board in Canada – was the latest example of how public education today divides students, teachers, the education system and society itself into a world of victims and oppressors.
The radicals at the Toronto District School Board are at it again, reminding us all that “education is a colonial structure” and that “White Supremacy” must be dismantled in our schools.
The DEI/CRT house of cards must be coming down @tdsb if they have to release this document this morning.
By having these listed as “core beliefs” they are basically stating that they are uncontestable, and that it is official TDSB policy that these statements are capital T Truth pic.twitter.com/MQ50IEeOzz— Save Our Schools TDSB (@SOSTDSB) February 20, 2024
I was calling out the ant-white racism at the TDSB since 2012 or so. Of course in those days it wasn’t as fashionable as it is today.
The TDSB called the cops in an effort to silence me. It was a sick schoolboard then, it’s worse now. A prophet in his own time etc etc etc …
TDSB Sics Police On Sarcastic Blogger
Toronto school board moves away from communicating every hate incident to parents
TORONTO – Canada’s largest school board says it has moved away from communicating every hate- or racism-related incident to school communities after finding that letters about the cases could lead to further harm.
The changes in the Toronto District School Board procedures drew attention recently after two parents raised concerns about how an elementary school handled reports of hateful graffiti on site.
The parents, who are school council co-chairs at McMurrich Junior Public School, say they were “disheartened” when they heard from their children last week about swastikas drawn in a girls bathroom at the school.
TDSB says it’s working on a ‘distinct strategy’ to combat antisemitism in schools
The board’s response, sent Friday afternoon, goes on to say that a “distinct strategy on addressing antisemitism has been initiated and work has also begun addressing other forms of hate experienced within our classrooms,” including anti-Black racism and Islamophobia.
Homeschool your kids. The TDSB is a shithole of woke racists. It has been for years.
A Toronto City Councillor has done something the Toronto District School Board says it can’t do.
He is asking parents to encourage their children to stay in school and not join in on a pro-Palestinian rally billed as a class walkout scheduled for Thursday.
This flyer is being sent out to students at a Scarborough High school to promote a board-wide walkout which is being sanctioned by the education director, Colleen Russell-Rawlins: pic.twitter.com/iPfvbeiWzQ
— Sue-Ann Levy (@SueAnnLevy) October 25, 2023
While students held up cellphones to capture the fight on video, the teacher managed to pull the two boys apart.
If she hadn’t stopped them, “his skull would have been cracked open,” reasoned the teacher, who works at a secondary school in Etobicoke. The Star has withheld her name to protect her from potential repercussions for speaking out.
It makes us stronger or somethin.
Toronto school principal Richard Bilkszto was bullied by an anti-racism trainer over “his whiteness” — his questioning of her assertion that Canada is a more racist place than the United States. In July, he took his own life. The victim here is easy to spot. It’s the dead man.
The suicide of former Toronto school principle Richard Bilkszto, 60, was one that many of his associates believe was prompted, at least in part, by vicious attacks from an “anti-racism” instructor. After he differed on her assessment of pervasive structural racism, she held up his comments as an example of “white supremacy.” In the progressive-dominated education bureaucracy, this stands as among the worst of sins.
An anti-racism instructor was recorded mocking and laughing at a beloved Toronto principal who challenged her teachings — holding him up as an example of white supremacy “resistance,” according to a report.
Richard Bilkszto, 60, later committed suicide.
Bilkszto’s July death came after diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, instructor Kike Ojo-Thompson proclaimed Canada was more racist than the United States, a statement the principal pushed back on.
The tragic case of Richard Bilkszto, which shocked Canadians and was publicized internationally, highlights in their most extreme form, the dangers of the militant imposition of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) dogmas. On this occasion, Bilkszto, a well-respected Toronto District School Board (TDSB) principal, attended compulsory DEI sessions in which the lecturer, Kike Ojo-Thompson, upbraided him for disputing her statement that Canada was a more racist country than the United States. She apparently responded unpleasantly that, among other things, ”You in your whiteness think that you can tell me what’s really going on for Black people.” In a second session, she allegedly held Bilkszto’s comments up as a real-life example of being a white supremacist.
Kike Ojo-Thompson, a diversity trainer in Toronto, was explaining to her class of 200 or so public school administrators that Canada is a much more racist country than the United States.
“Canada is a bastion of white supremacy and colonialism,” Thompson said to a sea of nodding heads squeezed into Zoom. “The racism we experience is far worse here than there.”
It was April 26, 2021, and Thompson was leading attendees through a session on systemic inequity.
Anti-racism, diversity training under threat, say Black community leaders at Queen’s Park rally
Black community leaders rallied at Queen’s Park on Wednesday to fight against what they see as threats to anti-racism, diversity, and equity training in Ontario schools.
Advocates feel that work is under attack after the death by suicide of a former Toronto District School Board principal last month.
