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A Tale of Two Teachers in Canada’s ‘Woke’ Education System

A Tale of Two Teachers in Canada’s ‘Woke’ Education System
Students should be allowed the opportunity to come to their own conclusions, no matter the ideological perspective of their teacher, writes Jim McMurtry. Jazmine Thomas/Shutterstock
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A poster in a teacher’s classroom at a high school in Surrey, B.C., suggests society is too moralistic about sex work, the quote coming from an avowed Satanist. National Post writer Jamie Sarkonak described the classroom in this way: “The classroom ... is coated with social justice posters: ones that decry colonialism, ones that inflame racial politics and one that even likens prostitution to regular physical labour.”
Jim McMurtry
Jim McMurtry
Author
Jim McMurtry, Ph.D., was formerly a principal of Neuchâtel Junior College in Switzerland and a college lecturer, but mostly he was a teacher. He lives in Surrey, B.C.