Catholics Can Circumvent the Scourge of Identity Politics in Schools

The rhetoric of collective guilt—systemic racism, white privilege, silence is violence—became ubiquitous as school leaders assigned culpability to white employees for racial inequities. Matt Cardy/Getty Images

Commentary

With schools opening, and Parliament’s flag flying at half mast during a federal election, it is timely to assess how George Floyd’s death and discovered graves deemed to be of indigenous children near former residential schools have influenced the Canadian educational landscape.