Woke-ism run amok

For telling the truth, a teacher in the Abbotsford School District has been summarily fired, destroying a 40-year career.  What truth did he tell?  He told his students that the majority of children who attended residential schools died of disease.  He actually had the temerity to say they were not tortured and murdered by evil priests and buried in unmarked graves.

This caused hysteria among the woke gang and within a hour of making the statement, this teacher was fired and frog-marched off the premises.  Never mind the statistics which affirm what he said.  No, the storyline was murder and that's what he was supposed to say.  Salem Witch Trials anyone?

How can this stand?!  

This is what happened to BC teacher Jim McMurtry at the hands of the head of the district, Kevin Godden.  McMurtry further transgressed by refusing to be silent when he was suspended. He criticized the school board, the process and the people behind his suspension.

It is quite likely that McMurtry would have a job today if he had agreed to be muzzled, if he had abrogated his right to free speech and if he had followed orders.  But because of his refusal, Godden canned him on the spot.

After he was fired, somebody thought they better quickly throw together a report to justify the mess.  The conclusion?  His sacking stands.  “Given Mr. McMurtry’s assertions that he will not be ‘muzzled,’ that he has a democratic right to speak, that he will not follow directions, it is clear that Mr. McMurtry’s employment can no longer continue,” says Putin, er, Godden.  

WTF!!??  This is education.  This is truth.  How can the head of the district shove it aside and promote lies?  

The long and rocky road that led to McMurtry’s dismissal hearing began in 2021 during a Grade 12 classroom discussion in Abbotsford, B.C., concerning the just announced news of 215 unmarked graves at Kamloops Indian Residential School.  As we know, the parents of these native students asked that they be buried on school grounds because they could not afford to bring the remains of their children home.  But that's not the woke line, which claims the graves were hidden on purpose.  

A student said priests had murdered and tortured the children at the school and then left them to die in the snow.  McMurtry pointed out that most children at residential schools died from disease, primarily tuberculosis.  I have blogged this outrage many times and the stats bear this out.  Google them, they're all there.  I was a journalist, I do my homework.

But what would McMurtry know?  He only holds a master’s degree in the history of education and a doctorate in the philosophy of education with a specialty in Indigenous history.

“I’m a Canadian,” McMurtry. “I’ve a right to freedom of conscience.  I don’t understand any of this. How can they do this to me?”

McMurtry said “woke dogma” was dominant in schools and needed to be challenged.  “This woke indoctrination is as offensive as any totalitarian ideology that has ever been pushed. People use ideologies to further their own interests, this isn’t new. What is striking is that in schools they are presenting only one side."

Do race and affirmative action have anything to do with this?  I bettcha.  Mr. Godden is Black and you can be sure he sides with the woke; it's in his DNA.  It's absolutely shameful that the head of an educational district ignores facts.  The guy makes more than $200,000 a year and this is what he preaches.  Here he is.  Shame, shame: