WRDSB-Waterloo Region District School Board .................................................... The recent spate of negative publicity around the School Board is nothing new. Good Gosh Luisa D"Amato has been writing about various WRDSB misadventures for literally decades. Granted only a few of the most flagrant and egregious scandals/stories really have legs and carry on for a lengthy timeframe. Two that come to mind are the Ron Archer child abuse stories and how the Board played "Pass the Trash" with that teacher from school to school all the while defending him from parents' outrage. The other which actually became public prior to the public outing of the Board's gutless and contemptible behaviour regarding Mr. Archer was the case that I was involved in. Lots of court time involved as the School Board whined and lied to the Waterloo Regional Police each and every time I attended my child's school either for events oe even just to pick him up from school. Eventually after the first Trespass charge came to court and the Board looked like the petty, vindictive as.holes that they were, the Crown's office advised the Board that they would not prosecute any further Trespass charges that against me. ............................................................................................... Currently there are two more scandals/whatever the hell they are events making both the Trustees as well as the Board administration look mighty sketchy. The first is in regards to the former teacher who had the audacity to formally present herself as a Delegation to the Board only to be shut down four minutes into her Delegation. Apparently she suggested that certain books in the school libraries discussing sexual orientation, gender identity , transgender issues etc. might be inappropriate for the children from Grade 3 to Kindergarten who also used the same library. That shut down behaviour of a Delegation did not make the Trustees look very good. ................................. The second recent issue is the Mike Ramsay affair. Yes this is the same Mike Ramsay who has been a Trustee for what: twenty or thirty years? Well allegedly a tweet about Board business got him into trouble. Nobody wants to even publicly say what the issue is. Hmm! Is there any chance that these two most recent issues are connected??? Hey when our authorities decide to exclude the public from the discussion then it serves them right if the public jump to either conclusions or confusions.
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