Image via WikipediaOntario Education Minister Leona Dombrowsky and the Toronto District School Board are hoping the fuss over the maltreatment and humiliation of female students in a Don Mills public school will die down.
That’s not possible. School starts again in September and the Friday Muslim prayer service at Valley Park Middle School that sends girls to the back of the room will start again, too. It’s the contempt for our Canadian daughters that angers me. I, the Canadian child of immigrants from Scotland and India, cannot stomach this.
Again, during class time, a male will lead prayers with the boys at the front of the room. The girls will be behind them, partially hidden behind overturned cafeteria tables. Menstruating girls will be isolated far behind the other girls, a cruel segregation that I dealt with in a column on Monday.
I’ve heard from many readers, most of them aghast that young girls are being sent to the back of the bus. In school. But email response is not a measure, only an indication of what interested readers on a particular day.
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