Fight for Minorities, or Just Racial Rigging?

-

Fight for Minorities, or Just Racial Rigging?

Summary / TLDR

  1. TDSB claims to fight for minorities.
  2. TDSB fully discards the needs and choices of the minorities when capping the number of applications or school choices.
  3. The shown opposition and contradiction corroborates TDSB's true intention to make triple racial rigging for racial quota or racial balancing in the name of mega MEGA.

Disclaimer

This post is to provide the information, and the citations might not be properly given. All the credits are attributed to the original sources. It is written to the best of the contributors' knowledge and memory, which might not be fully accurate.

Note

This is one of a series of accompanying explanatory posts for the FREEDOM Declaration of Ontario and the FREEDOM of Ontario's Heads-up Message to Ontario Citizens and Residents, as listed in the latter's Appendix.

 

Claim to fight for minorities

The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) has been conducting the Secondary Program Review (the "Review"), and has presented the Student Interest Programs Policy Report (the "Policy Report;" retrieved: May 3, 2022) that replaces the Specialized Schools and Programs Policy as presented in the slides of November, 2021 (the "Slides"; retrieved: May 18, 2022).

 

The TDSB has repeatedly claimed that the Review and the Policy, etc., have been made, in the mega ideology of making "equity" great again (mega MEGA), for students, communities, or races that are

●     "underrepresented" (Page 13 of the Policy Report; Slide 40 of the Slides), or

●     "marginalized" (Agenda Page 47, Page 13 in the PDF file, of the Review's initial report of June, 2019, retrieved: May 15, 2022; Page 14 of the Policy Report),

 

As if the Review and the Policy, etc., were made to fight for minorities' rights or benefits.

 

In particular, Slide 40 of the Slides claims:

 

There are disproportions among student identity groups across TDSB’s Specialized Schools and Programs. Students who self-identify as Black, Middle Eastern, Latin, and Indigenous are under-represented in Specialized Schools and Programs.

 

Per this Proportion of Grades 3-12 Students by Ethno-Racial Group in the TDSB (accessed: May 18, 2022), which was based on the data collected in the 2017 TDSB Student and Parent Census, the said "Black, Middle Eastern, Latin, and Indigenous" groups' proportions were respectively 11%, 6%, 2% and 0.2%, totally accounting for around 19.2%.

Announced intent to ignore minorities

Yet, in Pages 7 and 8 of the Policy Report, to justify why the "number of application choices" is to be capped at one (1), the TDSB claims:

 

In 2020, over 80% of the students applying to a school through Optional Attendance only applied to one school. Specialized Schools and Programs application and Optional Attendance data from 2020, showed only 18% of students in Grade 8 submitted multiple applications. (see Table 1).

 

The similar rationale is presented in Pages 6 and 7 in the Out-of-Area Admissions Policy Report  (retrieved: May 19, 2022) to cap the number of regular school choices at one (1):

 

In Spring 2020, approximately 55% of Grade 8 students applied through Optional Attendance for either regular programs or specialized programs in Grade 9. Of those who applied, fewer than 9% of applicants included more than one choice for a regular program (see Table 2).

 

Now, the TDSB cares about only the majority of students, and fully ignores and discards the needs and choices of the minorities of these 18% and 9%, and of any minority groups as shown in the two tables?

Conclusion

The claim and the announced intent, as presented above, are utterly contradictory and opposite. It corroborates the fact that the TDSB does not really care about minorities, but just wants to make triple racial rigging for racial quota or racial balancing in the name of mega MEGA.

 

By the way, a school board's capping the number of school or program applications or choices is more than likely illegal, violating individuals' liberty, autonomy and rights of choice. We may elaborate on this matter at a later time when necessary.

Location: Ontario, Canada

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Heads-up Message to Ontario Citizens and Residents

-
FREEDOM of Ontario's Heads-up Message to Ontario Citizens and Residents Summary / TLDR The PDSB and the TDSB's recent policy-makings have shown significant procedural issues, and have shown the policy makers' omission of historical context, ignorance of legal basics, lack of global perspective and obsession with ideology of mega MEGA. They have also exposed alarming signals of resurrected segregations, triple racial rigging, and potential issues beyond education. We have built FREEDOMofOntario.org , published the draft FREEDOM Declaration of Ontario , and will be publishing accompanying posts and open/public letters. We are sincerely asking everyone to spread the website and the information, for the public awareness, and to execute our voting powers.
Read more

FREEDOM Declaration of Ontario

-
FREEDOM Declaration of Ontario (Draft)   This Declaration is a foundation document for the For Real Equitable Education with Diversity and Openness Movement ( FREEDOM ) of Ontario . Disclaimer This Declaration inevitably references or cites relevant laws or policies, or rephrases parts of them. It is the drafters' sincere and genuine intention to plagiarize nothing. If any words or concepts are unoriginal in this Declaration , all the credits are attributed to the original sources.
Read more

Open Letter to the Toronto District School Board Trustees

-
FREEDOM of Ontario’s Open Letter to the Toronto District School Board Trustees Summary / TLDR TDSB's policy-making around the Secondary Program Review and the two latest Policies has significant issues in historical, educational and legal aspects. The particular TDSB officers' individual disqualifications are deeply concerning and it appears that they have been obsessed with the ideology of mega MEGA. We have seen clear and unequivocal triple intent toward racially rigged education, and proclaim that any child(ren) of any race(s) must be entirely free from historical debt(s) owed by any race(s). TDSB Trustees shall decline the two Policies for the public interest.
Read more

TDSB's Policy-Making Is Illegal

-
TDSB's Lack of Powers ( ultra vires ) to Conduct the Secondary Program Review or Make the Policy Changes Summary / TLDR "For public bodies, …, everything which is not allowed is forbidden." The TDSB is not explicitly allowed to conduct the Secondary Program Review or make any policy changes in concern, which thus are clearly and unequivocally illegal. Disclaimer (Copied from previous posts) This post is to provide the information, and the citations might not be properly given. All the credits are attributed to the original sources. It is written to the best of the contributors' knowledge and memory, which might not be fully accurate. (From the main contributor) This post is written based on an email sent to the Ontario Ministry of Education, Toronto Office. Credit The main contributor for this post is Max Kant. Thanks a lot for their generosity. Note This is one of a series of accompan
Read more

Why Are There No Longer "Local Schools" in Ontario?

-
Why Are There No Longer "Local Schools" in Ontario? Present Centralized Funding Model in Ontario Public Education, and Invalidity of School Zoning in the Education Act Summary / TLDR Ontario has had a centralized funding model for public education in elementary and secondary schools since 1997, and Ontario school boards no longer have the power to levy local education taxes. Each Ontario elementary or secondary student is allocated a portion of funding for their education, regardless of where they attend a school or program. Each taxpayer (adult resident) in Ontario contributes to any public elementary or secondary school or program in Ontario in a relatively even or similar manner, as the residential education tax rate is universally the same anywhere across Ontario. The business education tax rates had been capped at the same level for 94% of all Ontario businesses as of 2021. Therefore, there are no
Read more

Origin of School Zoning and Historical Nexus of Open Enrollment in Ontario

-
Origin of School Zoning and Historical Nexus of Open Enrollment in Ontario Public Education Summary / TLDR Origin of school zoning in Ontario public education was closely related to local property education taxes. Open enrollment has been generally and generously permitted and supported in Ontario public education with strong historical nexus, regardless of school zoning. An Ontario (prospective) secondary student' right to provincially open enrollment is protected in the Education Act .
Read more

How Does the School Board Become Super Bob?

-
How Does the School Board Become Super Bob and Want to "Rob"? TDSB's Illegal Use of Personal Privacy Information and Trespass into Individual Autonomy Spheres Summary / TLDR TDSB infers students' family incomes by illegal use of personal privacy information. TDSB officers make an ungrounded conjecture about students' extracurricular activities, trespassing into their individual autonomy spheres. TDSB officers have been making policies based on the mixture of the illegal use and the ungrounded conjecture, in the name of mega MEGA. Any such policies, in particular any to "rob" students' equal opportunities to competitive programming, must be resolutely declined, resisted, and overturned if approved. FREEDOM of Ontario will provide a template of the Personal Privacy Information Notice at a later time. Disclaimer This post is to provide the information, and the cita
Read more

(To be updated) Roles, Powers, and Election of School Board Trustees

-
Roles and Powers of School Board Trustees, Appointment and Dismissal of a Director of Education, and Ontario Residents' Election Powers Summary / TLDR School board trustees are decision makers of a school board's policies, and they may change or reverse any existing policy(-ies) too. The school board trustees have direct power to appoint and/or dismiss the Director of Education of the school board. Ontario residents have voting powers to elect school board trustees, who shall act on behalf of residents, in particular, parents and students. Disclaimer This post is to provide the information, and the citations might not be properly given. All the credits are attributed to the original sources. It is written to the best of the contributors' knowledge and memory, which might not be fully accurate. Note This is one of a series of accompanying explanatory posts for the FREEDOM Declaration of Ontario and the FREEDOM of
Read more

Brief History, Role and Resurrection of the "Coloured People" Provision

-
Brief History of the "Coloured People" Provision in the Ontario School Act , Its Role in Racial Segregations, and Its Resurrection Summary / TLDR The "Coloured People" provision remained in the Upper Canada / Ontario School Act from 1850 through 1964, for more than 110 years! It was manipulatable, and used as the legal ground for racially segregated schools of coloured people, and to unreasonably retain educational resources for some race(s). It is being resurrected by the TDSB Secondary Program Review and its policies in the name of mega MEGA, which are to restrict the student flow. Disclaimer This post is to provide the information, and the citations might not be properly given. All the credits are attributed to the original sources. It is written to the best of the contributors' knowledge and memory, which might not be fully accurate. Note This is one of a series of accompanying explanatory p
Read more