School Board Appeals Court Decision in Case Filed by Former Teacher Concerned Over Content in School Libraries

The Ontario Superior Court had ruled against the WRDSB, allowing Carolyn Burjoski to move forward her defamation lawsuit against the board and its former chair.

Carolyn Burjoski, a former Waterloo Region District School Board teacher, was ejected from a school board meeting in January 2022 after raising questions about the age-appropriateness of some books in elementary school libraries that deal with gender transition. She said she is filing a $1.7 million lawsuit against WRDSB on May 4, 2022. Screenshot via The Epoch Times

An Ontario school board is appealing a court decision that gave the go-ahead to a defamation lawsuit against the board and its chair, filed by a former teacher who was accused of making “transphobic” comments during a presentation to the board over material available in school libraries.

Former teacher Carolyn Burjoski filed the lawsuit after a presentation she was giving to the Waterloo Regional District School Board (WRDSB) was cut short in January 2022. Then-chair Scott Piatkowski said she was violating the Human Rights Code by questioning the content of books available in school libraries.