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Originally Posted by acottawa
I am pretty sure school board trustees are not law enforcement officers in Ontario. If she thought it was a problem she should have called bylaw, although others were apparently also using the park and she did not bother them.
I think the issue here is less the park closure and more the ridiculous threats she made, including threatening to get him kicked off the school basketball team.
It begs the question why school trustees still exist. All substantive decisions are made at Queen’s park anyway.
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Well agreed she is not law enforcement but she didn't she do what Black Lives Matters says to do. Rather than call the police who might kill him talk to him. Adults talk to kids breaking the rules all the time. He told her off so she got mad at her powerlessness and went off on a power trip so maybe she shouldn't be a trustee. Read the article though it doesn't seem to be motivated by racism. She in fact had told others to leave the park.
Maybe her talk of kids like him ending up in jail were racist. Kids who don't listen to adults when they are breaking the rules are the type who get in trouble and go to jail, of course they are also the type who have determination and become high achievers. Not knowing anything about the kid maybe he is the latter and she made an assumption that was at least partially racially based.
As for trustees they now have the power to decide if schools are open or closed. Maybe this is province passing the back but nevertheless public pressure led them to shift from 2 days to 5 days a week of in school learning for this fall as their preference.
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