Violence in Peel District School Board Schools

It’s way out of control, thanks to woke-inspired Board policies

Image from the Brampton Gaurdian

By Igor Stravinsky (Teacher, commentator)

Yesterday, the Toronto Star published an article about a parent, Mr. Anwar Knight, desperately seeking justice for his son, the victim of an assault at school. “The case raises questions of how school boards handle violent incidents, when police should be called and what information is disclosed to the families of the students involved.” No kidding.

At the PDSB, administrators have been directed never to call police without the go-ahead from the senior administration, presumably the Director of Education. Physical altercations including stabbings and severe beatings with weapons are common in Peel schools and are often not reported to police. The perpetrators are given a slap on the wrist and return to school where they continue their pattern of bullying and abuse.

When kids are injured, the Board launches an internal investigation and parents are not told what the outcome of that investigation was. They are simply told that appropriate action was taken. The student then returns to school, usually along with the perpetrator.

This article gives you a rare glimpse inside this broken system which prioritizes protecting the reputation of the school, school board, and administrators, along with the perpetrator of violence, over school safety and justice for victims.

There has been an explosion in violence in schools in recent years, mostly attributable to an extreme aversion to enforcing codes of conduct and discipline on the part of the PDSB. The Board has taken its direction from community activists like Advocacy Peel with regard to these types of policies. Advocacy Peel and similar groups like Black Lives Matter advocate for the defunding/dismantling of police forces and blame any disparity in rates of school discipline from one identity group to another entirely on racism or phobias, leading to school boards reserving discipline for only the most egregious cases of misconduct, and even then, the discipline handed down is usually minimal. The result of the undue influence of these activist organizations has been school mayhem, injured students and education workers, and a general degradation of the school environment. 

These activist-inspired anti-disciplinary policies go hand in hand with “equity”-based academic policies which put all students, regardless of their academic knowledge and ability, into the same classes all the way up to grade 10. In spite of the clear evidence of the disastrous effect of all these kinds of policies, the Board shows no signs of making changes. On the contrary they are in many instances doubling down.

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Thanks for reading. For more from this author, read “Reconciliation Education”- Part 1

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