For the love of everything that is holy, when is the province going to shut down the Waterloo Region School Board (WRDSB), appoint a caretaker and send the entire senior administration back to finishing school? By finishing school I should elaborate that what they desperately need is a crash course in ethics, morals and decency. Right about now I would compare them to the Israeli cabinet as far as radicalism goes. And believe me I understand not only the Israeli desire for security following the October 7/23 massacres but also the desire for revenge and punishment based upon atrocities that Hamas inflicted upon innocent civilians on October 7. That said that hatred, anger and contempt for Israeli lives did not come out of the blue. Someone (s) in cabinet need to come up with or compromise on a better plan for the Palestinian people that does not include more generations of occupation, poverty and third class status as human beings themselves.
O.K. I got a little side tracked there. The WRDSB are appealing a judicial loss to Caroline Burjoski. Pretty clearly their noses and ego are out of joint. Yes Justice James Ramsay verbally hammered the school board in his earlier decision to toss out the Board's motion to throw out Ms. Burjoski's defamation lawsuit. Today's K-W Record have a front page story titled "School board appeals decision in Burjoski defamation case" describing the sequence of ongoing events around the matter.
Several points are clear. She did not incite hatred against anyone. She did not violate human rights legislation. She did not question the right of transgender persons to exist. What she did was to politely and reasonably ask the Board for clarity about the process/procedure that they use to determine the age appropriateness of books describing transgender persons and their issues in school libraries available to very young children. It is conceivable that the Board have a system in place that is reasonable, equitable and appropriate but they totally failed at that meeting to elucidate it. Instead their Chair overreacted both at the public meeting and afterwards as he made inaccurate statements describing Ms. Burjoski's behaviour and words. Now the Board are compounding their initial errors by further attacking Ms. Burjoski using taxpayers money through the court system. Stupidity!
Of course they appeal-they have nothing to lose since they lost the original case. Their lawyers cost them nothing while Ms. Burjoski's lawyer charges the normal 20x her salary per hour. They will also appeal because it is a technically legal form of torture and abuse. The bureaucratic type despise the democratic type and primarily feel that that any individual they consider too uppity must be brought to heel. On the other hand many elected school board officials are just mini-tyrants using the process to either push their social agenda's or to manipulate themselves into a higher elected office. Of course its just another case of litigation by attrition. Most poignant though IRREGARDLESS of who wins; is the fact that none are bigger winners than those who write the laws and get paid in full either way. Its a f-----g feeding frenzy folks!
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