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Good letter BUT stop beating around the bush and just tell Lecce bluntly " They are going after Whites only, they want to insult and abuse our children in the worst ways possible. Time to ask ourselves why we are allowing these people in from countries still living as in the middle ages to come here and hold teaching positions as well as standing on OUR streets yelling insults at us and our lifestyle. Given what is going on perhaps we need to tell our children not to take this and to stand up for themselves and their rights, throw a few insults back at these stupid ignorant idiots. Perhaps it is time we as white Canadians attend these hateful rallies in great masses and shout back at them lets return a few truthful slogans such as if you can not integrate here and think it is so bad go back the the country you came from. Lets face it every Canadian is asking themselves why if you love your country so much and want to live a restricted life just jump on a plane and leave, watch the door does not hit you in your ass as you go.

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I have sent the following letter to the OCDSB, with cc to all Trustees and Lecce:

Dear Director Buffone,

It has recently come to my attention that the Toronto District School Board

(TDSB) issued (and was then obligated to retract) a teacher-training

document titled *Facilitating Critical Conversations*, circulated by its

Equity, Anti-Racism and Anti-Oppression Division.

Although this document is Copyright TDSB 2024, and was presumably a

semi-private document meant for internal use only, it is now available in

various public fora. You can see it here:

Read the Toronto District School Board’s “Challenging Oppression” guide for

yourself—and our critique - Aristotle Foundation

<https://aristotlefoundation.org/reality-check/read-the-toronto-district-school-boards-challenging-oppression-guide-for-yourself-and-our-critique/>

It is disappointing, to say the least, to see an institution like the TDSB

trafficking in such conspiratorial and radically ideological training

material. For examples of the radical nature of this document, consider the

following extracts from the opening Core Beliefs page of the document:

- Schooling in North America is inherently designed for the benefit of

the dominant culture (i.e., white, middle-upper class, male, Christian,

*cisgender*, heterosexual, able-bodied, *neurotypical*, etc.).

- Education is a *colonial* structure that *centres whiteness* and

*Eurocentricity* and therefore it must be actively *decolonized*.

- *Race matters* - it is a visible and dominant identity factor in

determining peoples’ social, political, economic, and cultural experiences.

- *White Supremacy* is a structural reality that impacts all students

and must be discussed and *dismantled* in classrooms, schools, and

communities.

The document is replete with revolutionary language. I have underlined some

of the ideological neologisms in these Core Beliefs that are sourced from

theories of Critical Social Justice.

While it is readily possible to refute the assertions made in these

examples and the document overall, for the sake of brevity I will refrain

from doing so here. Refutations are available by various authors including

those at The Aristotle Foundation link above. What is clear is that this

document is ideologically driven, socially divisive, and explicitly

revolutionary in intent.

Can you please confirm that the OCDSB has not used, and will not use,

similar documents, based on the same ideologically driven agenda, for

employee training?

Thank you. I await your reply.

Respectfully,

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I truly applaud the resistance in their efforts to return Ontario education to some level of sanity but it might also be useful to translate this letter into braille for the edification of the blind at Queen's Park who are currently leading the visually impaired in the rest of the province.

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the blind leading the blind

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Well done. 'Battleground Ontario' is the proverbial beachhead.

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@WokeWatchCDN

Attention Igor Stravinsky

FYI

As a graduate, the daughter of a graduate, the mother of 2 graduates, and retired @tdsb teacher,

I wrote every @tdsb trustee, @sflecce and @fordnation regarding their white supremacy indoctrination.

I heard back from only one trustee, Chinese, who agreed completely. Maybe they experienced the Cultural Revolution in China firsthand?

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