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In January of 2018, in a Grade One class at Devonshire Community Public School, part of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board network, six-year-old N watched a YouTube video as part of her teacher's lesson plan on gender.
N is the kind of child, her mother Pamela told me in a telephone interview, that adores school - or did until the particular morning that prompted this column. The video was entitled, "He, She and They?!? - Gender: Queer Kid Stuff #2." The video contained statements such as, "some people aren't boys or girls," and that there are people who do not "feel like a 'she' or a 'he,'" and therefore might not have a gender. The young teacher, whom I will refer to by her initials, JB, continued to teach gender theory throughout the semester. According to N's feedback to her mother, JB told the children that "there is no such thing as girls and boys," and "girls are not real and boys are not real."
Comment: The effects of corruption in the training of educators are now coming home to roost. The teacher was obviously steeped the in 'progressive' ideologies that have infested the university system for nearly two decades. The damage to young minds will become obvious down the road.