Oh, before you hear the screams of the leftist crying that the Right is banning their porn for minors, THEY are banning just about everything else.... In the name of Equity.
So, it appears the communists wish to ban all non pornography and erase history. The new process, intended to ensure library books are inclusive, appears to have led schools to remove thousands of books solely because they were published in 2008 or earlier.
Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce said it is “offensive, illogical and counterintuitive” to remove books from years past that educate students on history, antisemitism or are celebrated literary classics.
The school board said in a statement provided to CBC that the school board “works to ensure that the books available in our school libraries are culturally responsive, relevant, inclusive, and reflective of the diversity of our school communities and the broader society.”
SCHOOL BOARD BANS ALL BOOKS PUBLISHED BEFORE 2008, BUT IT'S FOR "EQUITY" SO IT'S OKAY
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/p...-1.6964332
So, it appears the communists wish to ban all non pornography and erase history. The new process, intended to ensure library books are inclusive, appears to have led schools to remove thousands of books solely because they were published in 2008 or earlier.
Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce said it is “offensive, illogical and counterintuitive” to remove books from years past that educate students on history, antisemitism or are celebrated literary classics.
The school board said in a statement provided to CBC that the school board “works to ensure that the books available in our school libraries are culturally responsive, relevant, inclusive, and reflective of the diversity of our school communities and the broader society.”
SCHOOL BOARD BANS ALL BOOKS PUBLISHED BEFORE 2008, BUT IT'S FOR "EQUITY" SO IT'S OKAY
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/p...-1.6964332
Quote:"The Peel District School Board works to ensure that the books available in our school libraries are culturally responsive, relevant, inclusive, and reflective of the diversity of our school communities and the broader society," said the board.
CBC Toronto reviewed a copy of the internal PDSB documents Ellard's group obtained, which includes frequently asked questions and answers provided to school staff by the board, and a more detailed manual for the process titled "Weeding and Audit of Resource in the Library Learning Commons collection."
The documents lay out an "equitable curation cycle" for weeding, which it says was created to support Directive 18 from the Minister of Education based on a 2020 Ministry review and report on widespread issues of systematic discrimination within the PDSB.
Directive 18 instructs the board to complete a diversity audit of schools, which includes libraries.
"The Board shall evaluate books, media and all other resources currently in use for teaching and learning English, History and Social Sciences for the purpose of utilizing resources that are inclusive and culturally responsive, relevant and reflective of students, and the Board's broader school communities," reads the directive.
PDSB's "equitable curation cycle" is described generally in the board document as "a three-step process that holds Peel staff accountable for being critically conscious of how systems operate, so that we can dismantle inequities and foster practices that are culturally responsive and relevant."
First, teacher librarians were instructed to focus on reviewing books that were published 15 or more years ago — so in 2008 or earlier.
Then, librarians were to go through each of those books and consider the widely-used "MUSTIE'' acronym adapted from Canadian School Libraries. The letters stand for the criteria librarians are supposed to consider, and they include:The deadline to complete this step was the end of June, according to the document.
- Misleading – information may be factually inaccurate or obsolete.
- Unpleasant – refers to the physical condition of the book, may require replacement.
- Superseded – book been overtaken by a new edition or a more current resource.
- Trivial – of no discernible literary or scientific merit; poorly written or presented.
- Irrelevant – doesn't meet the needs and interests of the library's community.
- Elsewhere – the book or the material in it may be better obtained from other sources.
Step two of curation is an anti-racist and inclusive audit, where quality is defined by "resources that promote anti-racism, cultural responsiveness and inclusivity." And step three is a representation audit of how books and other resources reflect student diversity.
When it comes to disposing of the books that are weeded, the board documents say the resources are "causing harm," either as a health hazard because of the condition of the book or because "they are not inclusive, culturally responsive, relevant or accurate."
For those reasons, the documents say the books cannot be donated, as "they are not suitable for any learners."
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