A legal advocacy group is arguing before the Ontario Superior Court that a former grade-school teacher’s charter-protected rights to freedom of expression were violated when she was expelled from a school board meeting after voicing her concerns about sexually explicit content in school library books.
Carolyn Burjoski, who was an elementary school teacher with Ontario’s Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) at the time, gave a virtual presentation before her school board in January 2022 during which she read excerpts from two children’s books containing sexual content that were available at the time in the district’s school libraries.
