Rex Murphy: The woke rot at the heart of Canada's largest school board | National Post

Rex Murphy: The woke rot at the heart of Canada's largest school board | National Post

• Political correctness is toxic; wokeism is an insult to reason. Both seem to have found a home in the Toronto District School Board
• Sometimes a public backlash is exactly what’s needed to kick some common sense into our increasingly woke school boards.
  

"Such is the case with the Toronto District School Board’s (TDSB) insane decisions not to allow students to attend book club events featuring Marie Henein, an outstanding criminal lawyer the board took issue with because of who she chose to defend, and Nadia Murad, a Nobel Prize-winning woman who had been a victim of ISIL, endured torments too ugly to speak, but managed to escape and now champions young women the world over.

..But it does raise a couple of questions. 

• Such as: how could any functioning educational institution reach the conclusion that allowing an articulate, accomplished lawyer to speak to young students would send the wrong message? 
• Or: why did some TDSB bureaucrat think she had the right to bar such a person from speaking in front of a book club?..Read all.