The Toronto District School Board says more than 300 students have been involved in violence on school property so far this academic year.
In a report on school safety, the TDSB says a total of 323 students have been involved in violence on school premises between September and April.
The board — which is sharing the report with trustees at a committee meeting today — says the number of students involved in violence this academic year so far is the highest since at least 2018-19.
Last year, in its wisdom, the Toronto District School Board decided that students applying for entrance to its specialized secondary schools for math, science, the arts and other subjects would no longer have to pass tests, do auditions or submit portfolios.
Backers of the idea said that these entrance hurdles favoured privileged students whose parents could afford lessons and tutors, giving them a leg up over other contenders. So the specialty schools tended to have fewer students from some racial groups than the public school system at large. Under the new system, says the TDSB, “priority is given to those from underserved communities” and “then a lottery is used for remaining spots.” Essentially, successful candidates are chosen by drawing names from a hat.
I am so grateful I went to TDSB schools before the racist rot set in. I pity the parents who can’t afford to home educate or send their children to private schools.
A Toronto District School Board (TDSB) school hosted a performance by a drag star, leading protesters and counterprotesters to gather outside.
The performance was part of an assembly at York Mills Collegiate Institute on April 12 for Pink Shirt Day, a day to raise awareness about bullying. Some have taken the day as an occasion to focus on bullying against LGBTQ+ people specifically.
In a recent survey of Toronto school principals, 80 percent said they’re ill equipped to maintain school safety. About 40 percent said violent behaviour was on the rise, including physical fights and possession of weapons.
The rise in violence at the Toronto District School Board is on track to being the worst since 2000, when the board began collecting data, according to the Toronto Star.
The Toronto School Administrators’ Association (TSAA) surveyed its members and released a report detailing the post-pandemic uptick in school problems, a copy of which was obtained by the Globe and Mail.
Johnny can’t read because literacy is racist but he does know he’s really a girl.
Not a surprise given the TDSB is a woke cesspit overrun by lunatics who should never have been allowed near children in the first place.
You breed violence by pretending the enforcement of standards of acceptable behavior and academic achievement is racist.
As it stands the TDSB is just a variant of the TTC Homeless Shelter, a place to park all the little thugs.
How to stop the poison? Smash the teacher’s unions, take over the boards, wrest control of the teacher’s colleges, enforce a sane curriculum, fire the whackjobs wholesale.
Good luck.
This is another reason Toronto is turning into a shithole city.
Last fall, many candidates for trustee in municipal races across Canada—mostly in Ontario and British Columbia—ran on what was broadly described as anti-woke platforms.
They warned against the politicization of the school system and an erosion of standards that pushed kids more towards an activist mindset than to developing the well-rounded skills they need to succeed in life.
TDSB rules out return of armed police in school hallways amid rising student violence
The Toronto District School Board has ruled out the return of armed police to school hallways, even as it grapples with a rise in violent incidents amongst students.
That was made clear at a board meeting Wednesday night in which trustees discussed how to boost school safety and endorsed a plan that involves reaching deep into the community for help with what some are calling a crisis.
The TDSB’s 13-point action plan includes hiring more staff trained in de-escalation to work with youth, working with local groups to expand programming, creating an ad hoc team of experts, and growing partnerships with culturally responsive community organizations and faith-based groups.
Culturally responsive faith based basketball courts.
New details have emerged about the safety issues that prompted more than a dozen staff members at York Memorial Collegiate Institute, including the principal, to refuse work last month.
CP24 has obtained documents from a Ministry of Labour “field visit” that was undertaken on Nov. 24 in response to the work refusals.
The documents detail a myriad of safety issues cited by the 14 staff members who refused work, beginning on Oct. 31.
Hundreds of teens from York Memorial Collegiate Institute staged a mass walkout on Friday to protest what they say is an unsafe learning environment, over-policing and a lack of teachers, which means some classes aren’t being taught with kids sent to the library or cafeteria.
… Students said recent media coverage of their school — incidents of escalating violence, armed police responding to a 911 call about a gun and teachers refusing to work because of facilities issues and unsafe conditions — painted youth as criminals.
And of course it’s all due to racism!
No matter how much violence — including shooting deaths — occurs in and around Toronto high schools, the Toronto District School Board will never put police officers back inside them because that would mean admitting it blundered when removing them five years ago.
On Nov. 22, 2017, trustees voted 18-3 to end the School Resource Officer (SRO) program, even though the board’s own survey showed it was strongly supported by students, parents and school staff.
Is there a place for police in Toronto high schools?
The subject recently came up again after York Memorial Collegiate Institute was in the news over reports of chaos in the school: massive brawls in the hallway, bathrooms used for drug deals and fights, and teachers being threatened and assaulted.
The racist faction kicked the cops out a couple of years ago because they interfered with the violence.
In the halls at Woburn Collegiate Institute, students knew a fight was brewing before class let out at 3:15 p.m. on Halloween.
Outside, the anticipation was palpable as at least one teen pulled out her cellphone and started filming, her voice rising as at least four boys appeared to get into it — one backing through the parking lot with three others moving toward him. There was shouting. Some students seem to gather around knowingly as others headed home.
Then the shooting started.
Mayor Jello makes an appearance noting he recently promised another 20 million to defeat the scourge harshing our Diversity.
Smart parents do not send their children to TDSB schools.
Violence against adults, fights in the hallways and reports of weapons on the property. Staff at York Memorial Collegiate Institute in York say the school is in crisis, and the board isn’t doing enough.
“The expectation was, ‘Hey, show up to work and pretend as if nothing happened all through the day. Cross your fingers, hope to God that it will not happen again,’” said a staff member, whom CityNews has agreed to keep anonymous.
Fourteen of the school’s 80 staff members staged a one-day work refusal campaign due to safety issues, an unprecedented number at a single school, a union representing secondary school teachers in Toronto said.
What a shithole. But then the TDSB sucks shit, groomers and racists run the place.
Race-based student census to ‘dismantle’ oppression reviewed by Toronto school board
Canada’s largest school board is set to launch a race-based student census with the explicit goal of rooting out what it calls the “white supremacist” and “colonialist” structures undergirding the Toronto school system.
Home school or private school, anything is better than subjecting children to race hate.
