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The rhetoric of collective guilt—systemic racism, white privilege, silence is violence—became ubiquitous as school leaders assigned culpability to white employees for racial inequities. Matt Cardy/Getty Images
With schools opening, and Parliament’s flag flying at half mast during a federal election, it is timely to assess how George Floyd’s death and discovered graves deemed to be of indigenous children near former residential schools have influenced the Canadian educational landscape.
Jon Zagaja is a retired Ontario high school English teacher. Founder of Educators for Critical Thinking, he is researching current trends in education informed by recently released documents from the Institute of National Remembrance in Warsaw about Polish resistance against Nazi and Soviet communist occupation.
