Header image: My old high school (taken July 2025)
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(Aug 4, 2025) Canadian teachers yearn for guidance, instruction as AI infiltrates classrooms
https://www.cbc.ca/news/education-teachers-ai-training-1.7597806
- [In the US] Google, Microsoft and Anthropic have partnered with teachers’ unions to train 400,000 teachers over 5 years
- ﻼF: Who gains more out of this “partnership”?
- According to the Canadian Teachers’ Federation, the biggest teachers’ union in Canada, educators here don’t have anything like that, and certainly don’t have anything that’s been uniformly available across the country.
- British Columbia said that while the province has provided general guidelines, “school districts are developing their own local policies and approaches.”
(June 19, 2025) B.C education system in crisis as ‘critical’ staffing shortages lead to band-aid solutions: BCTF
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/06/19/bc-education-system-critical-staffing-shortage/
[see comments about Tech Ed]
(June 17, 2025) Cancelling God Save the King anthem for schools violated the law, Manitoba trustee says in court action
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/god-save-the-king-school-division-court-case-1.7563285
- Under the Public Schools Act, trustees are legally bound to uphold all legislation and their oaths. No legal authority permits a school board to stay a provincial regulation — any changes to legislation must follow lawful procedures, not unilateral resolutions, the application states.
- In April 2024, Coffey gave a presentation at a board meeting where he said the residential school system began as a good thing.
- He also questioned the level of abuse at the schools and said the term “white privilege” is “racist.”
- In March, the NDP government introduced a bill in the legislature to formally eliminate the requirement, but it has yet to be debated,…
(June 16, 2025) Valedictorian told to stay home after making pro-Palestinian remarks in grad speech
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/valedictorian-told-to-stay-home-after-making-pro-palestinian-remarks-in-grad-speech-1.5758371
- Her comments on the war in Gaza came at the end, after a land acknowledgement.
“As a commitment to truth and reconciliation, I must acknowledge colonial and genocidal atrocities today, including the massacre of more than 17,000 Palestinian children in Gaza,” Yao said, breaking off as the crowd cheered.
- The next day, Yao said she received a call from her principal, who said her statements had “caused harm” and told her she shouldn’t come to school on Monday.
- Since the Israel-Hamas war began in October 2023, more than 50,000 children have been reportedly killed or injured in Gaza, according to UNICEF.
AI Speech: Update?
(June 4, 2025) Burnaby Teachers urging B.C. gov’t to immediately increase education funding
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/06/04/burnaby-teachers-urging-bc-government-school-funding/
- As the Burnaby School District cuts band and language programs, high school counsellors, and some other positions due to a $4.2 million budget shortfall,…
- Peters says the school district is running out of money because it has had to dedicate a lot of resources to adding portable classrooms due to overcrowding in schools.
- The school district previously shared that it had a rainy day fund of more than $10 million a few years ago. Now, $7.5 million has been spent on portables alone.
(Jun 5, 2025) Randall Denley: Ontario is finally forcing out DEI from schools and universities
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/ontario-is-finally-forcing-out-dei-from-schools-and-universities
- Following on from (May 29, 0205) Ontario to give education minister power to more easily take over school boards
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/ontario-to-give-education-minister-power-to-more-easily-take-over-school-boards - Ford and his team are not selling their new Bill 33 as an attack on DEI, but that’s clearly what it is.
- The government intends to take far more direct control over school boards.
- “Progressives” who run many big city boards will have little remaining authority and the province will be able to countermand pretty much any move it doesn’t like.
- The legislation also mandates a return of school resource officers in areas where police services provide them.
- Ontario Public Service Employees Union president JP Hornick said, “Bill 33 is a power grab, and a dangerous one.”
- Reddit
(May 30, 2025) B.C. won’t require measles vaccination for schools
https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/highlights/bc-wont-require-measles-vaccination-for-schools-10733287
- In the week of May 11 to May 17, which is the most recent data available, Health Canada said there were 194 new cases in Ontario, 135 new cases in Alberta, 15 in Manitoba, eight in Saskatchewan and two in B.C.
- B.C.’s cases will likely increase in September after people from Alberta travel to the Okanagan for summer holidays, Filiatrault said.
(May 30, 2025) Vancouver teacher suspended after pup fetish identity, adult content discovered online
https://vancouversun.com/news/vancouver-high-school-teacher-suspended-after-pup-fetish-adult-content-online
- A Vancouver high school teacher has been suspended after his pup fetish identity and a messaging channel where he shares pornographic content were discovered online, raising questions about where the line lies between teachers’ personal lives and professional expectations.
“I’m not doing anything illegal, I’m not doing anything that is hurting anyone, or that interferes with my job — the issue is their stigma, their bias,” said Daniel Gore.
- Gore said the issue appears to have begun after a student in his class saw the name ‘Tank’ on his computer screen and later found public pornographic content linked to that identity.
- “From what I’ve been told by the union, the main issue is that there is sexual content featuring me online that students could potentially access,” he told Postmedia. “If they ask me to take down the (pornographic) part of my content, I’m willing to do so — because honestly, that’s not the part of my life that matters most to me.”
“I’m looking forward to no longer having to pretend to be someone else for eight hours a day.”
- “…employers can lawfully restrict employees’ social media activity if they can demonstrate reputational harm.”
(Mar 26, 2025) Jamie Sarkonak: Education student punished for questioning decolonization sues UWO
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jamie-sarkonak-education-student-punished-for-questioning-decolonization-sues-uwo
[ https://archive.ph/3jIGV : Reddit ]
- To be clear: I do not care for this publication, nor do I believe that anyone I know would care to have this person as a colleague; I certainly would not.
- I am sharing this, as this case is likely to get a lot of coverage and I think there are important conversations to be had about the many complex issues involved here.
- There does not, as yet, seem to be other coverage available Margaret Munn
Schools held to ransom
(May 7, 2025) Toronto District School Board says it got a ransom demand over stolen student data
https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/2025/05/07/toronto-school-board-says-it-got-a-ransom-demand-over-stolen-student-data
- Canada’s largest school board says it has received a ransom demand over student data that was stolen last December, even though the company behind the affected software paid ransom in hopes of securing that information.
(May 7, 2025) School districts hit with extortion attempts months after education tech data breach
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/school-districts-hit-extortion-attempts-powerschool-breach-rcna205429
- The attempted extortion has so far targeted schools in Canada and North Carolina.
(Dec 4, 2024) New Westminster schools offline as district investigates ‘cyber security incident’
https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/new-westminster-schools-offline-as-district-investigates-cyber-security-incident/
- The district did not answer follow-up questions about whether this is being investigated as a ransomware attack.
- [it was]
(Apr 26, 2025) Employee information may have been accessed in ‘attack’ on Vancouver School Board banking systems
https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/employee-information-may-have-been-accessed-in-attack-on-vancouver-school-board-banking-systems/
- [This comes not long after the New West School Board was the victim of a ransomware attack]
- The letter describes the incident as an “attack.” It goes on to explain that there is “a potential risk” that those behind the attack “may have unlawfully obtained employee names, bank account details, pay amounts and employees’ VSB identification numbers.”
(April 22, 2025) ‘That’s not inclusive education’: Surrey school district cuts 50 education assistant positions
https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/thats-not-inclusive-education-surrey-school-district-cuts-50-education-assistant-positions/
- The decision was announced at the public school board meeting earlier this month as the district grapples with a $16 million budget shortfall.
- “It’s really tragic the way that the system is going when we talk about inclusive learning and an inclusive school process,” [Tammy Murphy, president of CUPE 728] said. “We’re not inclusive where we are basically putting kids in catchment schools and saying,‘Here’s where you need to be.’”
(April 9, 2025) Canada’s public school system may be headed for mediocrity, warns SFU professor
https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/1jw895s/canadas_public_school_system_may_be_headed_for/
- The comments on the story in Reddit are illuminating (though unlikely to be news to anyone involved in K-12 education) [counterpoint]
(Apr 9, 2025) Surrey school district pauses new U.S. field trips to ensure student safety
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/04/09/surrey-school-district-pauses-us-field-trips/
- “Surrey Schools has directed our schools and staff to pause booking future travel to the United States, certainly for the remainder of this year and looking into next year,” said District Superintendent Mark Pearmain.
(Apr 3, 2025) Former Lynn Valley teacher guilty of indecent assaults on Grade 6 boys
https://www.nsnews.com/local-news/former-lynn-valley-teacher-guilty-of-indecent-assaults-on-grade-6-boys-10475885
- The cases date back to the 1970s and 80s
- In the winter of 1982, several of the boys confided in a friend’s parent what had happened. That parent reported it to Upper Lynn Valley Elementary’s principal who called Moore to his office. Moore submitted his resignation that day, the court heard.
- The principal never reported the matter to police, he testified, because it was the school district’s responsibility.
- There was an RCMP investigation into Moore in 1988, though it never resulted in charges
- A date has yet to be set for Moore to be sentenced.
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Reminiscent of how the Catholic Church “handled” such crimes and of the disgraceful handling of BC teacher Robert Robertso’s case:
- Employed by Richmond School Board when first accused of having sexual contact with three female students 15 and 16 years old between 1974 and 1976.
- He resigned from his job and the investigation stalled.
- Employed by the Vancouver School Board from 1976 to 2006, when he was investigated for another misconduct allegation.
- He resigned before he could be dismissed
Still holding a valid teaching certificate, he moved to China.
- The B.C. Teacher Regulation Branch finally stripped Robertson of his teaching credentials last year (2016)
(Mar 6, 2025) Want to Improve Schools? Education Assistants Have Ideas
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/03/06/Improve-Schools-Students-Education-Assistants/
- It’s not the rotation of classrooms and number of bright young faces seen on a daily basis that makes the role of an education assistant in a public school difficult…
- The hourly pay in Delta is decent, Kabesh said. But the number of hours of work makes the job unaffordable for many
- Teaching assistants represented the fourth highest number of violence reports by industry, behind only nurses, nursing aids and social work employees.
(Feb 2, 2025) Soft spaces out, stick-fighting in: Dutch call for the return of risky play
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/02/soft-spaces-out-stick-fighting-in-dutch-call-for-the-return-of-risky-play
- A new policy from the D66 liberal democrats proposes giving all children in the Dutch capital access to outdoor play areas to climb, play with water and fire, sword-fight with sticks, build with hammers, rope or knives, wrestle and fall. “Rufty-tufty playing means that children might get a bump or a cut,” according to the policy – but it’s an acceptable risk, they say.
“The inspiration, and it really is a huge problem, is that children are hardly moving,” said Rob Hofland, head of the local D66 and proud uncle of tree-climbing children. “All kinds of problems stem from just sitting behind a screen. We see increasing numbers of burnouts and we are learning ever more about how unhealthy it is that the Dutch – the sitting champions of Europe – are so sedentary. Things need to change, and it starts young.”
(Jan 27, 2025) Vancouver trustees to look at installing defibrillators in all schools
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/01/27/vancouver-school-board-motion-defibrillators/
- A motion to install automated external defibrillators (AEDs) will be presented at a Vancouver School Board meeting on Monday night.
- The motion includes a cost analysis and options for installation, maintenance, and training in the school district’s budget.
In November, a group of students at Vancouver’s Point Grey Secondary school led by Tobias Zhang, raised money to purchase AEDs for the school after his friend passed away from a cardiac arrest following a basketball tryout in 2022.
- The motion says there is currently no act or regulation requiring mandatory AEDs in public spaces, including schools.
(Jan 23, 2024) Canada’s top court to hear challenge to controversial Quebec secularism law
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/23/canada-quebec-secularism-law-supreme-court
- “The legislation does not name specific religious symbols, and theoretically all symbols – kippahs, turbans, crosses – are equally prohibited, but critics of the law says it disproportionately affects Muslim women who wear the hijab.”
- “The law arguably violates key tenets of Canada’s charter of rights and freedoms but the province has used an arcane legislative mechanism known as the “notwithstanding clause” to override certain parts of the charter. A government can only invoke the clause for five years before it must be renewed. Quebec’s national assembly passed the secularism bill into law in 2019, last renewing the clause in 2024.”
- “A hearing is not yet scheduled but is likely to come in the fall.”
After a teacher was removed from a classroom for wearing a hijab in 2021, the prime minister, Justin Trudeau, said it was important “to ensure that it is Quebecers themselves who deeply disagree with the fact that someone can lose their job because of their religion”.
(Jan 22, 2025) Mediation falls apart in B.C. Christian Brothers case after more than 200 students come forward
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/christian-brothers-vancouver-college-st-thomas-more-mount-cashel-1.7437180
- ﻼF: The same evil culture of silence that infested Ireland for so many years facilitated the same sort of behaviour here. Known child rapists and child abusers transferred around the country to keep them from accountability. These “Christians” protected their organization at the expense of children’s innocence; may they never know peace.
(Jan 19, 2024) ‘They are nearly impossible to detect’ – schools issue warning on ‘highly addictive’ nicotine pouch trend
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/they-are-nearly-impossible-to-detect-schools-issue-warning-on-highly-addictive-nicotine-pouch-trend/a602394087.html
- ﻼF: This is in Ireland but I’m sure it is a cause for concern here in BC too (though I have yet to see a report of this).
- I once got into a discussion with pro-vaping types on Twitter. The same brigade now shills for tobacco pouches, arguing that nicotine is harmless (“no worse than caffeine”). I believe it is not worth my time to engage with these types any further.
- The deliberate targeting of children of a highly addictive product is the problem.
- I once got into a discussion with pro-vaping types on Twitter. The same brigade now shills for tobacco pouches, arguing that nicotine is harmless (“no worse than caffeine”). I believe it is not worth my time to engage with these types any further.
(Jan 16, 2025) Revival of God Save the King in Dauphin-area schools raises concerns about reconciliation
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/god-save-the-king-mountain-view-schools-1.7433745
- “A school division in western Manitoba has decided to once again include God Save the King in its schools’ morning announcements, a move that has some questioning whether it promotes reconciliation efforts with Indigenous staff and students.”
(Jan 16, 2025) BC’s Ombudsperson Is Investigating the Exclusion of Kids from School
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/01/16/BC-Ombudsperson-Investigating-Exclusion-Kids-School/
- “Our government has more than doubled funding to school districts for inclusive supports and services since 2017, but I know barriers remain,” said [Education Minister Lisa] Beare.
- “Humphreys said that many kids who are excluded do not yet have diagnoses — they are waiting for the psychological assessments necessary to receive a learning disability or neurodivergence diagnosis.”
- “And even with a diagnosis, Humphreys added, schools and school districts often lack the resources — despite the Education Ministry’s assertions of increased spending in this area — to provide these supports.”
- “And even with a diagnosis, Humphreys added, schools and school districts often lack the resources — despite the Education Ministry’s assertions of increased spending in this area — to provide these supports.”
(Dec 16, 2024) ‘Unsafe conditions’: Surrey falling behind on inclusive education, advocates warn
https://globalnews.ca/news/10920609/surrey-inclusive-education-safety-support/
- “The group warned overcrowded classrooms and insufficient resources have contributed to unsafe and unproductive learning conditions, including violent behaviour from students with unmet needs. Youth with diverse learning needs are being left out of inclusive education and isolated due to the lack of adequate supports, they said.”
(Dec 6, 2024) Teacher Resignations Are on the Rise in BC
https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/12/06/Teacher-Resignations-Rise-BC/
- “…fewer B.C. teachers left the profession last year than in the 2021-22 school year…but those who did leave were more likely to be resigning, rather than retiring or finishing their contract positions.”
- “…the number of teachers resigning from their positions has been steadily increasing over the past four years, up to a high of 647 teachers quitting in 2023-24.”
- ‘The Tyee requested an interview with Education Minister Lisa Beare, but she was not made available.”
- “But what we are hearing is, aside from retirements, an increase in educators leaving the profession around the five-, six-, seven-year mark. What we need to understand is, why?”
(Dec 5, 2024) Several Burnaby schools to adopt staggered schedules
https://globalnews.ca/news/10902890/burnaby-schools-staggered-starts/
- “The district says it expects to create 10 per cent more capacity with the extended school day.”
(Dec 4, 2024) Cyber attack targets New Westminster School District
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/12/04/new-westminster-schools-cyber-attack/
- [ﻼF: Ransom being demanded. Privacy nightmare for the district]
(Nov 29, 2024) Mother pulls daughters from Surrey school over student’s alleged violent outbursts
https://globalnews.ca/news/10895366/surrey-special-needs-violence-concern/amp/
- “Parents of children at a Surrey elementary school are concerned about escalating violence they claim is being displayed by a Grade 1 student with special needs.”
(Sept 4, 2024) Youth training program grows by 11% in one year
https://burnabybeacon.com/p/youth-work-in-trades-program-burnaby-2024
- Most of the programs are Industry Training Authority (ITA) red-seal trades. Red-seal trades are governed by regulations under the Provincial and Territorial Apprenticeship Acts.
- Students can also receive industry training for skilled trades needed in Burnaby that are not considered red-seal programs. Christofides gave examples of industry training programs such as film, graphics, robotics, tourism, fitness, sound recording, health sciences, and digital animation.
- “Over the last five years, it has consistently grown from the 150 to the 180 range up to around 300 for this year,”
- Nine students received the $1,000 grant last year.
- One of the challenges faced by the school district is providing training at Burnaby schools, where space is limited. Some programs are based in community colleges or other educational institutes, such as the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT).
Not a “teacher story”, but one I want to highlight:
(June 28, 2024) Abbotsford student’s speech about accessibility challenges at her school censored by administrators
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/abbotsford-student-s-speech-about-accessibility-challenges-at-her-school-censored-by-administrators-1.6946123
As part of her Grade 12 art activism class, Lexis De Meyer was tasked with investigating accessibility challenges faced by people with disabilities in her community of Abbotsford.
But just hours before she was set to present her painting and artist statement, her teacher pulled her aside.
- “(She) tells me she had to change my artist statement, or the administration wouldn’t let her hand out the books that contained the rest of everybody’s artist statements,” De Meyer recounted.
- On Friday, the Abbotsford School District issued a news release. In it, Superintendent Sean Nosek said: “We are investigating the circumstances surrounding the censorship of Ms. De Meyer’s speech. We understand that this action may have silenced an important student voice and caused frustration.”
Do they? How / where would they learn about this?
40 minutes of me discussing (Dec 22, 2023) Freedom of expression for teachers in K-12 in British Columbia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMucFBWBepE
(May 23, 2024) Vaping in schools: Ontario’s $30 million for surveillance and security won’t address student needs
https://theconversation.com/vaping-in-schools-ontarios-30-million-for-surveillance-and-security-wont-address-student-needs-229072
“What we don’t fund, we police.“
- Ontario’s recent education budget announced a “back to basics” funding formula, which includes $30 million to install vape detectors and security upgrades — measures which will expand the surveillance of students in schools.
- The province says the budget signals a huge investment in education, but the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives notes it cumulatively reflects funds for 4,900 fewer educators in classrooms.
(Mar 17, 2024) B.C. relying on uncertified instructors to teach in elementary, secondary schools
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/03/17/bc-teachers-shortage-uncertified-instructors/
- See Reddit thread here: “It’s not the pay. It’s the pressure.”
- See mention of TTED in the thread above
LOP’s issued
2019 – 92
2022 – 172
2023 – 303
- In its Enhancing Student Learning Report, the Peace River South School District in northeastern B.C. reveals 18 per cent of teaching positions in 2022-23 were filled by uncertified instructors.
- Over the course of the year, there were 691 unfilled teacher absences.
- It says that meant principals and substitute teachers, who are also not certified, had to take over the teaching in those classrooms.
- Over the course of the year, there were 691 unfilled teacher absences.
- The MOE is reducing processing times for teacher certification applications while adding 350 new seats since 2018 in teacher education programs throughout B.C.
ﻼF: For 2024 Winter applications, UBCV had 1231 applicants (for around 750 places) up 5% from last year.
[Ireland] (Mar 26, 2024) ‘Teachers feel vulnerable’ as one-in-five experience some form of cyberbullying
https://www.rte.ie/news/education/2024/0326/1440020-cyberbullying-survey/
- the most common form of abuse is receiving angry, rude and vulgar messages or having such messages being posted online.
- videos of teachers being uploaded without their consent; trolling – harmful, untrue or cruel comments being posted online – fake websites or profiles; accounts being hacked and private information being posted about teachers.
- At Malahide Community School, students have to keep their phones in sealed pouches during the day which has helped to cut down on cyberbullying incidents involving both pupils and teachers.
- more than 80% have concerns including data harvesting, the potential of AI to undermine professional teacher autonomy and increased teacher workload.
(Mar 25, 2024) RED C ASTI Survey 2024 – Digital Technology and its Impact on Teachers’ Working Lives
https://www.asti.ie/document-library/red-c-asti-survey-2024-digital-technology-and-its-impact-on/
🤔 A similar story here in BC, no doubt. Such a survey would make for an interesting MA/MEd project.
NOT Canada, but an account from a school in Sweden where a newly-certified (2023) BC Tech Ed Teacher is currently working.
- Google-translated from Swedish:
(Feb 20, 2024) School receives criticism – several cases of violence against employees
https://www-mitti-se.translate.goog/nyheter/skola-far-kritik–flera-fall-av-vald-mot-anstallda-6.3.203727.df2dc636ff?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
(Feb 16, 2024) No charges laid over explicit, AI-generated photos of Winnipeg students
https://winnipeg.ctvnews.ca/no-charges-laid-over-explicit-ai-generated-photos-of-winnipeg-students-1.6771991
As this is, unfortunately, almost certain to become more of a prevalent concern, I’m adding this story to the list.
- No charges will be laid after explicit, AI-generated photos of Winnipeg high school students were circulated online
Related to this, and connected to Standard 2, teachers should be aware of a new law and related service:
(Jan 29, 2024) New services help people protect their intimate images
https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2024AG0004-000096
- With the Intimate Images Protection Act coming into force on Monday, Jan. 29, 2024, the Province, in partnership with the Civil Resolution Tribunal, is launching two new services.
- These services will help people who have had their intimate images shared without their consent quickly access self-help tools to diagnose their legal issues, get information about their rights and connect to supports.
Unfortunately, this law does not seem to address AI-generated images, the law being (as always) one step behind the emerging technologies.
Related to this, read the key findings of the 2022 Canadian Centre for Child Protection‘s report on the financial sextortion of, predominantly, boys & young men https://content.c3p.ca/pdfs/C3P_AnalysisOfFinanSextortionPostsReddit_en.pdf (see page 4)
- “[Extorters] demand that the [catfished] victim send them money, and if not, they will send the victim’s nudes to their friends and family”
(Feb 15, 2024) Beloved Johnston Heights teacher goes viral in feel-good birthday video on social media
https://www.surreyschools.ca/_ci/p/166744
☘ Awwww 🙂 I keep an eye out for happy/positive stories too but, as you know, in teaching, the “good” stuff usually happens/goes unnoticed.
(Feb 13, 2024) Richmond School District denies wrongdoing in alleged science experiment accident
https://www.richmond-news.com/local-news/richmond-school-district-denies-wrongdoing-in-alleged-science-experiment-accident-8296894
- Jesse Wowk Elementary School
- If Mui’s child was injured from the incident, the school district and Woo said it was due to the child’s negligence or others not named in the lawsuit, which included failing to follow instructions to not engage in any activity without the teacher’s presence and engaging in “horseplay” when the child knew or ought to have known they might get injured.
(Feb 12, 2024) Canadian teacher accused of selling students’ art on personal website
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/12/art-teacher-sell-student-work-canada
- Students at Montreal’s Westwood junior high school made the chance discovery last night after searching out their art teacher’s website. On it they found their own art, available for purchase on coffee mugs, mobile phone cases and clothing.
UPDATE:
(Mar 25, 2024) Parents file $1.5M lawsuit after Quebec teacher accused of selling students’ artwork online https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/parents-lawsuit-montreal-teacher-artwork-1.7154012
- The parents of 10 young students at Westwood Junior High School in Saint-Lazare, Que., an off-island suburb west of Montreal, filed the lawsuit for $1.575 million, or $155,000 per plaintiff plus punitive damages, against the teacher, Mario Perron, and the Lester B. Pearson School Board (LBPSB) for alleged copyright infringement.
(Feb 6, 2024) B.C. math instructor’s firing over ‘deeply intolerant’ YouTube videos not religious discrimination, human rights tribunal rules
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-math-teacher-fired-for-deeply-intolerant-youtube-videos-has-human-rights-complaint-dismissed-1.6758811
- Fraser International College in Burnaby ~ Not K-12 but interesting re Charter 2(a)
- A B.C. math instructor who was fired because of his “deeply intolerant” YouTube videos calling non-Christian gods the Antichrist and saying women who have abortions should be put to death, among other statements, has had his complaint at the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal thrown out.
- Gleb Glebov claimed his termination constituted religious discrimination, specifically against his Christian views…
- Argument …was a part of his ‘sincerely held’ religious beliefs, and whether is ability to practise his religion would be compromised if he couldn’t post the videos.
- While he may hold Christian religious beliefs, he has not provided any evidence to indicate that publicly disseminating his views is part of his sincerely held religious belief or practice
- In November 2019, an anonymous tipster sent an email to the school’s director, alerting her to the instructor’s YouTube videos. One of them was posted on a school Facebook page identifying Glebov as a teacher by name.
- Then on Dec. 9, the director held a meeting with Glebov, which he secretly recorded. The audio and transcript were reviewed by the tribunal.
Charter Rights
(June 25, 2024) [Abbotsford] School officials censored an ‘art activism’ student’s speech about accessibility barriers
https://fvcurrent.com/p/robert-bateman-art-activism
- Lexis De Meyer was told her teacher could be punished if she spoke about challenges she faced after breaking her ankle
(June 1, 2022) Vancouver School Board Is Violating Charter Rights, Say Student Journalists
https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/06/01/Vancouver-School-Board-Violating-Charter-Rights/
- The Canadian Association of Journalists is backing a student newspaper’s complaint that new rules wrongly limit freedom of expression.
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