Ontario's education minister is telling Ottawa-Carleton District School Board trustees to get 'back to basics' after internal battles between trustees came to a head in a code of conduct vote Monday night.
Ontario's education minister is telling Ottawa-Carleton District School Board trustees to get"back to basics" after internal battles between trustees came to a head in a code of conduct vote Monday night.
The vote on whether to declare that Kaplan-Myrth breached the code of conduct failed by a slim margin, with seven trustees voting in favour and four choosing to abstain. The motion needed eight supporters to pass. Kaplan-Myrth did not vote, per board rules."What message are we sending to our students? It's okay to bully and call it something else?" she told reporters."This has been a character assassination from the beginning," she said Monday night.
According to a third-party report by Michael Maynard, an investigator with ADR Chambers, Kaplan-Myrth sent Dickson a message on Nov. 12, 2022, seeking support for her motion to mandate masks. Dickson initially said she would support Kaplan-Myrth's motion, but a week later, on Nov. 19, Dickson replied to Kaplan-Myrth to say she changed her mind and would not support a mandate.
Text messages sent by OCDSB trustee Nili Kaplan-Myrth to fellow trustee Donna Dickson in November 2022, as submitted by Dickson in a formal complaint. "For me, to have been personally attacked about my commitment to equity was disturbing, as an out lesbian, as a woman who proudly raised a Black daughter," she said.
A text message exchange between OCDSB trustee Nili Kaplan-Myrth and OCDSB trustee Donna Dickson sent during a board meeting Nov. 24, 2022. Submitted as evidence by Dickson in a formal code of conduct complaint against Kaplan-Myrth. Dickson, in her complaint, said the insinuation that her opposition to a mask mandate would be voting in support of white supremacists to be of"such an egregious nature" that she could not let it pass.
"In the very meeting in which we had to clear the room because we were under siege, I did not have the opportunity to turn to my colleague, who I valued and respected, to say what is going on. I simply texted her and said these are not our constituents, these are white supremacists," she said. Blackburn said there's always a level of dysfunction on the school board, but this latest slate of trustees is"a bit above and beyond."
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