Thank you Waterloo Region District School Board. Your idiocy and ideology combined with your inherent corruption is presenting a beacon of stupidity and incompetence throughout Waterloo Region. You have via thirty years ago with the Ron Archer scandal laid bare your fundamental indecencies. It was bad enough that he was knowingly allowed to continue teaching (?) and molesting school children but the failure of the police and judicial system to charge senior WRDSB staff involved in covering up Mr. Archer's criminal activity and indeed "passing the trash" to transfer him from school to school was almost equally as contemptible. For this our police and prosecuters never were held accountable much less those at the top of the WRDSB directly involved in lying to parents, denying childrens' complaints and ignoring the odd brave individual within the system who dared speak out.
Then there is the Caroline Burjowski affair. A twenty-year teacher was treated by the Board and Trustees like trash because she politely and professionally spoke her honest opinion regarding certain controversial books available to extremely young students. Right or wrong, 100% on target or not she both as a teacher , a stakeholder and a human being deserved so much better.
Now we have the sudden removal of chanika jewan the Director of Education. His presence resulted in major educational developments not all universally favoured by parents, students or teachers. The WRDSB seems to think that all the other education stakeholders including Board members should have zero input in both decisions and even in major changes made by the brain trust at the WRDSB. Three trustees however have stepped up namely Bill Cody, Mike Ramsay and Cindy Watson and are agreeing with Louise D'Amato's (K-W Record) request for some kind of a town hall meeting. For decades I have watched the WRDSB play fast and loose with education in general, students progress and parents' abilities to significantly participate in their childrens' education. It has been a disaster and the province should have stepped in decades ago and thrown them out of their cushy positions. Shame on them.
Is there significance as to the number of horrible politicians who learned their "craft" starting at the WRDSB? Does our current mayor of Woolwich Township (Sandy Shantz) even acknowledge any longer that she chaired the school board for a term or two? If I were her I certainly wouldn't.
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