What queers, transpeople and our allies should know about bill 157

[ishai_wallace]

Bill 157, the "Keeping Our Kids Safe At School Act" came into effect on February 1st of this year. If you are a teacher, by now you should have been trained on it, if you're not, you may not have heard of it. If you are a queer, trans or allied student, you should know about it. If you are someone who has ever been identified (rightly or wrongly)

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[torontoteacher]

As someone who attended the Ministry training in December and was responsible for training the staff at my school, I would say that this is a step, but a small one

[ishai_wallace]

I very much agree with your first two paragraphs, and the last one. I hope that by talking to people in the school system I can help create some pressure that this does help make positive change, but share your frustration about how often policy looks good on paper but makes little difference in the real world.

I had not realized the piece about only documenting "actionable" events. You are totally right and that's a considerable oversight. Is that something school boards can address in board policy? Is ETFO doing anything about that?

Anyway - many thanks for your input. ::waves::