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Panicked reaction to students' fight leaves 14 staffers off the job at Toronto school
National Post ^ | July 5, 2019 | Christie Blatchford

Posted on 07/06/2019 4:59:13 AM PDT by rickmichaels

The Toronto District School Board’s panicked handling of a fight between two Grade 7 students has left their school, so good it’s known internationally as the public equivalent of a posh private school, near ruin.

At last count, eight school staff — senior administrators and teachers — at Glenview Senior Public School have been put on “home assignment” or “administrative leave,” interchangeable terms the school board uses for temporary paid suspensions.

An additional six staff are on personal or stress leave.

TDSB spokesman Ryan Bird confirmed the numbers this week.

The suspensions came about either directly as a result of the fight itself or indirectly because, in the wake of the suspensions of the principal and vice-principal, the school was essentially left rudderless for the final two months of the academic year.

With a rotating cast of principals and other administrators temporarily at the helm, the favoured option for resolving conflicts between students and those between parents and staff quickly became “sentence first, verdict afterwards” in the infamous language of Alice in Wonderland.

But what happened at this midtown Toronto public school is not a fairy tale; it’s a cautionary story of a school board that has collapsed under the weight of its own political correctness.

To recap the fight: On March 27, a 12-year-old boy was allegedly chased around a classroom by a 12-year-old girl he’d been making faces at as she gave a presentation. At some point, he unsuccessfully threw a chair to block her. She allegedly swung at him but missed; he swung back and connected, leaving her with a bloodshot swollen eye and a nosebleed.

The boy was subsequently suspended for five days.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...


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1 posted on 07/06/2019 4:59:13 AM PDT by rickmichaels
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....temporary paid suspensions....

In my neck of the woods we call that a vacation.

2 posted on 07/06/2019 5:02:12 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds)
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Folks should be sure to read the entire article.

What a cluster.

Elite school.

SNORT.


3 posted on 07/06/2019 5:04:38 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds)
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To: rickmichaels

Where was the teacher during this “fight?” This fight sounds like a typical day in my house when I was growing up.


4 posted on 07/06/2019 5:07:36 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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” the confrontation was otherwise par for the course at a busy middle school filled with 800 hormonal adolescents in grades 7 and 8.”

Not when I went to Jr. High back around 1991-1993. And my school was no den of saints.

I credit the abundance of male teachers. Old school dudes that could put you in your place just by you knowing that they are even looking in your general direction.


5 posted on 07/06/2019 5:07:37 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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WTF is “stress leave”?..Where do I apply for that?


6 posted on 07/06/2019 5:14:15 AM PDT by Paddyboy (Roma Omnia Vincit)
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To: rickmichaels

My favorite quote from the comment section:

“How many NUffINS can a dindo do if a DINDO dindo NUFFIN?”

(sic)


7 posted on 07/06/2019 5:14:20 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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Not in the private sector.


8 posted on 07/06/2019 5:16:13 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds)
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To: rickmichaels

Take it to the school yard and settle it there without teachers or parents present. That would be a good lesson in life.


9 posted on 07/06/2019 5:19:55 AM PDT by certrtwngnut (4- Do something,,,,even if it's wrong.)
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“As Mariam Racko, a longtime former guidance counsellor at Glenview says with a wry grin, in the time it takes to walk the length of the hall, on any given day, students may complain about being pushed, ignored, “looked at” the wrong way, harassed or teased.”

Sounds like they ‘diversified’ their school a bit.


10 posted on 07/06/2019 5:22:28 AM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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Now you knew the story was so “Tricky” for Toronto until you read the article of this liberal store:
What made the encounter especially tricky for a school board that prides itself on its correct, equity-driven practices was that the boy is white and the girl is black.


11 posted on 07/06/2019 5:22:52 AM PDT by keving (We the government)
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The reason we can't have nice things.

Like the Ice Cream licker in Minnesota.

12 posted on 07/06/2019 5:28:04 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (The Elite: Too stupid to know when to quit stealing!)
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The unknown momma is labeled as “T.Q.” That has to be short for “Ta’Quisha.”


13 posted on 07/06/2019 5:32:16 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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Odd. The very long and detailed article makes no mention of the 14 who were let go or why.


14 posted on 07/06/2019 5:33:12 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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The Toronto District School Board’s panicked handling of a fight between two Grade 7 students has left their school, so good it’s known internationally as the public equivalent of a posh private school, near ruin.

Twisted, this sentence is.

15 posted on 07/06/2019 5:39:37 AM PDT by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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From the excerpt, I’m guessing that the 14 don’t include the principal or vice-principal, but the excerpt isn’t long enough to figure it out for sure by my read.


16 posted on 07/06/2019 5:41:38 AM PDT by Hieronymus ("I shall drink--to the Pope, if you please,-still, to Conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.")
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The article makes it clear that this had become a black political activist cause celebre.

That means that white people who are involved in any capacity were in imminent physical and financial (lawsuit) danger—that is why they took “stress leave”.

Their “tolerance and diversity” Pandora’s box was opened and the monsters came out looking for fresh meat.


17 posted on 07/06/2019 5:50:54 AM PDT by cgbg (Democracy dies in darkness when Bezos bans books.)
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She allegedly swung at him but missed; he swung back and connected,

Back in the day he’d have made his faces, she’d have responded vocally or at most taken a step toward him, perhaps raising an open hand. He’d have faded away laughing...Today a 12 yr old girl steeped in “You Go Girl” and justifiable violence against any “offending” male makes a vendetta out of it and actually tries to punch him out. Worked out real good.


18 posted on 07/06/2019 5:56:49 AM PDT by TalBlack (Damn right I'll "do something" you fat, balding son of a bitch!)
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“The worst enemy that the Negro have is this white man that runs around here drooling at the mouth professing to love Negros and calling himself a liberal, and it is following these white liberals that has perpetuated problems that Negros have. If the Negro wasn’t taken, tricked or deceived by the white liberal, then Negros would get together and solve our own problems. I only cite these things to show you that in America, the history of the white liberal has been nothing but a series of trickery designed to make Negros think that the white liberal was going to solve our problems. Our problems will never be solved by the white man.”

Malcolm X


19 posted on 07/06/2019 5:58:50 AM PDT by HangnJudge
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” boy is white and the girl is black.”
That explains everything.


20 posted on 07/06/2019 6:16:38 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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