TDSB Toronto District School Board

… As for why teachers are calling in sick, the report identified a number of internal and external factors, including, but not limited to, socio-economic factors, workplace culture and employee experience, insufficient disability and WSIB resources and “absenteeism acceptance,” defined as a teacher’s “tendency to accept absenteeism, recognizing an effective response to absenteeism without attempting to change it.”

The report noted that there are higher rates of educator absenteeism in areas of the city with higher populations of low-income families, racialized students and students with special education needs.

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.

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.