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When people with different views lose the ability to respectfully interact with each other, communities tend to fracture. Things will get exponentially worse if we allow our public education system to dissolve into competing echo chambers.
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School board trustee elections are currently taking place in four provinces: Ontario, British Columbia, Manitoba, and Prince Edward Island. While trustee elections are typically sleepy affairs, things are shaping up quite differently in Ontario.
Michael Zwaagstra is a public high school teacher and a senior fellow with the Fraser Institute. He is the author of “A Sage on the Stage: Common Sense Reflections on Teaching and Learning.”
