Anthony Furey: Toronto School Board Should Apologize for Racially Divisive Guidebook

Commentary The Toronto District School Board (TDSB), Canada’s largest such board, has shelved a controversial teaching resource after public and political outcry. The booklet, called “A Teacher Resource for Challenging Oppression in TDSB Classrooms,” is a race-obsessed document that was distributed to all teachers in the board. The beginning lays out what the authors describe as “core beliefs” around education. Here’s one of them: “Education is a colonial structure that centres whiteness and Eurocentricity and therefore it must be actively decolonized.” Here’s another: “White Supremacy is a structural reality that impacts all students and must be discussed and dismantled in classrooms, schools, and Communities.”...