Police were called in to deal with angry parents after they disrupted a Catholic school board meeting north of Toronto earlier this week over the issue of safe spaces for LGBTQ students.
A group of angry parents attended the York Catholic District School Board's monthly meeting on Tuesday to oppose the use of stickers meant to signal safety to LGBTQ students.
The parents say the stickers, and any LGBTQ-inclusive messaging, are at odds with their Catholic faith.Sheree di Vittorio, another parent who made a virtual deputation, told the board, "Catholic schools should not allow transgender or LGBT students to attend." The parents' reaction comes after the stickers were distributed in January, but "safe space" signage has been available to teachers at YCDSB for years, said Mike Totten, president of the York region branch of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association.Many of those initial stickers had been lost or damaged over the past 10 years and teachers began asking for replacements about a year ago, Totten said.
"They need to understand that this is Ontario, this is Canada, that there are certain basic human rights that students have," de Buono said.
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