Open letter to People for Education

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and toxic race grifters

By Igor Stravinsky, High School Teacher

Hi Annie.

I am a secondary teacher who used to support your organization financially, but stopped doing so a while back.

I reached out to you some time ago expressing my concern for the bullying and harassment of school teachers and administrators who questioned the current approach to diversity, equity and inclusion which has taken over most of our institutions, including school boards (and schools), but never received a response from you. 

The current thinking with respect to the disproportionately sub-par performance at school of black and indigenous students is that it is entirely due to racism and colonialism being foisted upon these kids by white supremacist teachers and administrators. Any suggestion that this is a simplistic, incomplete, and superficial analysis focused on past injustice rather than current impediments to success, or that we need real-word, effective solutions which address a range of socioeconomic factors, has been met with outright hostility, deplatforming, and even discipline from the school boards. 

This has led to a really toxic atmosphere in the schools as teachers and administrators have had to endure finger pointing and psychological abuse from workshop presenters like Kike Ojo-Thompson. These workshops have had no positive effect at all and do absolutely nothing to bring us together as Canadians with common aspirations to live a good life together based on fairness and equality.

Now that it is clear that a truly great educator had his career erased and became so despondent as a result that he took his own life, are you finally going to speak out against the entrenchment of Critical Theory ideology in our schools? The idea that we are all primarily members of a hierarchy of intersecting identity groups, doomed to play the role of oppressor or oppressed, rather than unique individuals with equal rights and responsibilities is destroying our school system. 

If you really are "people for education" you will step up and use your considerable influence to advocate for equality, individual civil rights and liberties, and compassionate opposition to racism and intolerance that is rooted in dignity and our common humanity.

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