PART 1： Trailer School Board Chair： Dictatorship or Democracy？
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Summary
In this episode, the Board of Trustees votes on a motion regarding sexual education in public schools. The motion was brought forward by a grandmother who has 10 grandchildren in the district and wants to know if there is a line that the district will not cross when it comes to sexual education.
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Thank you so I just want to note that the books that I mentioned and many of the other
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books I searched them on the FER and the ERAC site and they are not approved resources there they're
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not every search I did came up this there this book was not found so those books that are
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controversial are not preferred books by this group either but I want right now I want to ask
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the question so is there a line that we won't cross do we have a line there's no mention
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there's no mention of the criminal code of Canada which we have heard from parents who got up to the
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I'm just going to interrupt you there there's no material in our class point of privilege chair
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would you let me finish my not because I'm going to interrupt you and tell you that there is no
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there's no there are no materials in our schools that break the criminal code and that are illegal
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point of privilege you're calling quite a privilege I'm the chair I'm denying your privilege well if
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you would like to let me continue I would appreciate that actually so are you going to stop saying that
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there's stuff that so I'm going to read the criminal code to you and then you can just I've cut your mic
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so um does anybody else wish to speak to this motion so you're not going to let me read no I'm not
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Riapi Estado Kassiajia hi I'm a grandmother that has 10 grandchildren in the school district I have
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two things that are on my mind so I'll just go ahead and jump right in one of them is a safety policy I
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don't know if there is such a thing for overnight trips my first concern is regarding an overnight
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field trip coming up in which there are students that identify as the opposite sex attendee just to
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interrupt that's not on the agenda we're speaking about items that are on the
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agenda what about for violence and bullying in the schools is that
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something I can speak on on this agenda okay so basically anything I wanted to
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say today is not going to when can I can't you know the trustees at any point I
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have emailed you and you responded but I didn't get the answers that I was hoping
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for I can hear you but it's not getting broadcast because you're saying stuff
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that's potentially discriminatory so I'm not gonna let you speak anymore you can
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please take a seat those items are not on the agenda thank you I have a question
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through the chair to the superintendent if I may and I would like to read first
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of all well my question is gonna be this is a superintendent aware of their
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sexually explicit books in school district 33 do you know their content in
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is school district 33 within their legal right to provide these materials okay
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and my question is to the superintendent what legal stance has the superintendent
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taken in regards to the criminal code let me just briefly read there are strict
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definitions times it wasn't considered child pornography court so I've I'm
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turning off your mic dr. Ferguson yeah we're not doing this there's no
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illegal material in our schools that's highly defamatory no I'm not gonna let
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you sorry to add a question and I didn't ask you specifically for a reason
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because I knew your answer so asking the super does the district is not sharing
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this meeting this is the meeting of the board and I pulled you to sit down thank
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you people can either obey the rules of order of this meeting or you'll be asked to
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leave none of what you're saying is on the public record because I've turned off
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your mic just so you know have a seat dr. Ferguson I just wanted to make a
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statement what you were just saying about not doing criminal record checks on drag
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queens that's not on the agenda thank you this is not on the agenda drag queens are
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not on the agenda not on the agenda so like you have a question about something
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on the agenda this has put out some very compelling information about the sexual
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abuse of children which I think should be all of our concern at any time directly
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related to this and it's becoming very well known so you as a board have to
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protect our children and consider you know something is moving forward such as
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the learning resource so G123 was presented in 2016 12 pilot schools in
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2017 they put it into all schools no parents were involved in this decision or
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psychologists to determine the long-term effects now what we're finding is not on
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the agenda either it's a learning resource that's not anything to do with our
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learning resources policy though it isn't anything to do with our learning
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you're not on the mic I've told you thank you so you can go sit down now thank