The principal of an Ottawa public school has apologized for asking a student to remove the Palestinian flag as their profile picture.
Why does school administration often feel like they are entitled to police the personal lives of students?
The article states in was an online class, and the student had it as his profile picture, so I’m assuming it was clearly visible in whatever teaching app they were using. I don’t think that counts as your personal life tbh.
Yeah I don’t think it’s unreasonable to ask him to take it down in that case. 🤷🏻♂️ Same if it was an Israeli flag.
Your personal life excludes going to school? Not sure that I follow
They think they know better, but they are just as ignorant as the kids they are teaching.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB) confirmed the incident took place during an online class last week.
In the video, the principal said “political statements are not for the classroom” and told the student they would be removed from class if they didn’t comply with the request.
“Rather than creating a space to support students through this, I think surveilling or bullying them into muting who they are, or erasing part of their identity, is unacceptable,” she said.
School board officials declined requests for an interview, instead sending CBC a statement already issued on its website addressing what happened.
The statement went on to read that symbols of hate, discrimination or violence would never be tolerated but students have the right to express their “identity, background or beliefs.”
However, Khan said this particular incident follows a trend in school boards across the country over the last two weeks, with the council’s caseload increasing fourfold.
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