Racist bullying: service centre ordered to pay up
The Marguerite-Bourgeoys School Service Centre (ex school board) was ordered to pay $65,000 to a family in TMR whose kids experienced years of racist taunting and bullying. But a Human Rights Commission order is not binding, so the mother may have to fight for it.
JaneyB 09:57 on 2020-12-08 Permalink
That mother has the patience of Job, thankfully. It’s appalling that she had to complain in 2018 so that the “school workbook that included the n-word remove it”. And then there’s the indifference to the relentless racist bullying of her kids.
Kate 10:29 on 2020-12-08 Permalink
I couldn’t help thinking if she’d sent her kids to school in adjoining Park Ex, they wouldn’t have been bullied for not being white – the school populations there are much more diverse.
jeather 11:44 on 2020-12-08 Permalink
Can’t really blame her for wanting to send the kids to the local school in the area where she lives.
Kate 12:09 on 2020-12-08 Permalink
Not really blaming her, just thinking that one solution to her problem was just there on the other side of l’Acadie. The real solution involves educating the teachers at the TMR school, but that takes time and may not work.
jeather 12:18 on 2020-12-08 Permalink
It’s a pretty limited solution — even assuming the schools are the same quality (looking in 2015, that school had something like an 80% average on the primary exams, 28th in the province), then you are saying that it’s fine for the school to teach racism as long as it’s to affluent white kids?
Kate 12:24 on 2020-12-08 Permalink
Of course not, jeather. Obviously the situation has to be fixed in that school (and its associated board or service centre) for everybody. But changing a culture takes time and, as I say, sometimes doesn’t even work. If it’s your kids, and they have only so much time in school, and they’re being harassed to misery where they are, one option would simply be to move schools. I give this woman props for trying to change things where she is.
Joey 12:33 on 2020-12-08 Permalink
@Kate it’s not so easy to send your kids to a public school aside from the one they are zoned for – even within the same school board/service centre. There is a process but it’s complicated and admittance is only confirmed a few days into the school year, and ther is no guarantee that a student’s spot will be available the following year.
Kate 12:37 on 2020-12-08 Permalink
I didn’t know that – thanks.
steph 19:59 on 2020-12-08 Permalink
Imagine if all the ParkEx parents could just send their kids to the TMR school. It’d be an outrage.