FUREY: School board goes silent on viral teacher, citing 'personnel matter'
The Halton District School Board isn’t answering any more questions about the Toronto-area high school teacher who went viral around the world for wearing what appears to be jumbo-sized prosthetic breasts to class.
They won’t answer media questions. They won’t answer questions put to them by parents. And they’re using the excuse of it being a “personnel matter” for not dealing with the issue.
That’s not right. Because parents (and students) are right to be concerned. The situation just isn’t normal and shouldn’t be allowed to continue.
When the story first went viral, it was after students at Oakville Trafalgar High School posted a number of pictures and videos to social media. Margo Shuttleworth, chair of the school board, told the Sun’s Joe Warmington that they were standing behind the teacher in the name of protecting “gender rights”. Shuttleworth added that they were “creating a safety plan” for both the teacher and in anticipation of protests.
But other than a lone individual who would not give his name to media, nobody showed up to protest in front of the school on Monday morning. Students arriving at school that morning gave differing opinions to the Sun, with some not concerned about the issue and others saying it has caused debate within the school.
The Sun has since been told by sources that few students attended the teachers’ class that day, with only about half a dozen kids showing up. Meanwhile, parents have called and emailed the school to ask questions and haven’t received meaningful responses.
It’s obvious that the status quo should not continue. The teacher should not be able to continue teaching – especially shop class – while wearing such distracting and disturbing accoutrement.
School boards have dress codes. As employment lawyer Sunira Chaudhri recently explained in a column by Jerry Agar, the school is totally within their right to expect this teacher to follow a dress code.
Chaudhri described the teacher’s presentation as “beyond the scope of what any reasonable employer would expect and nobody would be surprised to see an employer stepping in and saying, ‘We need you as a teacher to come to school and dress professionally.’”
Exactly. This has nothing to do with something like transgender rights. The story has gone viral not because the teacher identifies as trans. It’s gone viral because everyone knows it’s completely inappropriate for someone to present themselves this way in a professional environment.
Yet the board isn’t budging. When the Sun asked them to confirm the reduced attendance at the class, the fact parents have deemed their response inadequate and to find out what they’d be doing next, they would not answer any of those questions. They instead stuck to their talking points.
“The HDSB recognizes the rights of students, staff, parents/guardians and community members to equitable treatment without discrimination based upon gender identity and gender expression. Gender identity and gender expression are protected grounds under the Ontario Human Rights Code.,” the board said in a statement that was not attributed to any one individual. “As this is a personnel matter, we cannot provide further information.”
What do you call such a phenomenon? This goes beyond an incident of “wokeness” or “political correctness”. The fact that there’s a very simple issue that needs to be addressed here and it appears that the board just won’t do anything about it puts this in a whole different league.
EXCLUSIVE: 'This is a school, not a circus.' Students join protestors outside Canadian school where trans teacher with oversize prosthetic breasts, as authorities consider introducing DRESS CODE to force her to tone down her look
- Transgender teacher Kayla Lemieux went viral when she was pictured wearing huge prosthetic breasts in the middle of shop class
- Lemieux is a tech teacher at Oakville Trafalgar High School in an upscale residential neighborhood roughly 25 miles west of Toronto
- DailyMail.com can reveal that school board members voted to consider implementing a dress code on Wednesday
- This could mean that Lemieux may have to ditch the fabric-stretching prosthetic breasts, which sell online for as much as $1,000
- The district has defended Lemieux and said it would no longer answer questions about the issue as it is a 'personnel matter'
The trans high school teacher in Canada who is flaunting oversize prosthetic breasts will have to tone down her revealing wardrobe if school board members get their way.
Kayla Lemieux, a tech teacher at Oakville Trafalgar High School in an upscale residential neighborhood roughly 25 miles west of Toronto, has garnered global attention after photos and video appeared on social media showing her eye-popping fake breasts.
Under pressure from fuming parents, the Halton District School Board (HDSB) issued a statement to explain that its hands are tied due to the province's Human Rights Code.
And students seem to be behind the move. Several joined a small protest outside the school Friday, with one declaring: 'This is a school, not a circus. We just want to learn.'
A motion was put forward at a school board meeting Wednesday to consider altering the dress code – which could mean that Lemieux may have to ditch the fabric-stretching prosthetic breasts, which sell online for as much as $1,000.
Transgender teacher Kayla Lemieux went viral when she was pictured wearing huge prosthetic breasts in the middle of shop class
DailyMail.com can reveal that school board members voted to consider implementing a dress code on Wednesday
At a meeting of the HDSB on Wednesday, trustee Tracey Ehl Harrison put forward a motion that 'the director be requested to return to the board, by November 2022, a report addressing the various considerations regarding dress code'
'The HDSB recognizes the rights of students, staff, parents/guardians and community members to equitable treatment without discrimination based upon gender identity and gender expression,' the board said in a statement. 'Gender identity and gender expression are protected grounds under the Ontario Human Rights Code.'
Minutes before the final bell on Friday, a small group of protesters showed up at the end of the school’s driveway, shouting for school officials to ‘protect our children.’
Across the street, several people held signs that spelled out ‘Inclusivity is no excuse for depravity.’ One person held up a sign that said: ‘Teacher’s personal propaganda has no place in the classroom.’
Most of the students who spilled out of the school’s numerous exits left to start their weekends but a group of mostly senior grade students joined the protest.
Police officers, facing a crowd that swelled to nearly 100, escorted vehicles out of the school parking lot.
‘Thank you for speaking up for us,’ one male student shouted before being handed a megaphone. ‘This is a school not a circus! We just want to learn!’
Another student told the protesters he doesn’t go to school to be ‘distracted.’
‘It’s so crazy that nobody is doing anything.’
Students who joined the fracas said they are bound by a dress code that prohibits visible nipples or genitalia so they are left wondering why the same rules don’t apply to Lemieux.
One of the protest organizers blasted the human rights code for protecting ‘a man who dresses up as a woman who has size Z fetish fake boobs.’
‘What are we doing to our children to allow this?’ he asked the crowd.
Protesters from a faith-based group called Action 4 Canada called for the principal and school board trustees to resign for failing to protect students.
It appeared that Lemieux was taken out of the school to the driveway of an adjacent YMCA childcare facility, where she was driven away from the scene.
Protesters have vowed to keep fighting and are planning more demonstrations.
At a meeting of the HDSB on Wednesday, trustee Tracey Ehl Harrison put forward a motion that 'the director be requested to return to the board, by November 2022, a report addressing the various considerations regarding dress code.'
Yuxuan Xie, a student in grade 10, told the Sun that most of the kids in school seem to have brushed the incident off.
'I don't really hear anyone talking about it,' he said. 'I think, maybe, we don't care about that.'
A woman identifying herself as Lei, a mother of a senior at the school, told the Sun that while she was ok with Lemieux coming out as a trans woman, she said wearing such large prosthetics was too much.
'I think he's going a little too far,' Lei said. 'I think identifying himself is ok, but I think that just wearing that in the classroom... I still have concerns over that.'
https://www.chch.com/oakville-teacher-gains-international-attention-over-large-prosthetic-breasts/
Oakville teacher gains international attention over large prosthetic breasts
The Halton District School board says it is standing by a teacher at Oakville Trafalgar High School, despite growing international attention.
The shop teacher has made headlines internationally due to the choice to sport large, prosthetic breasts along with tight work attire students say is unprofessional and uncomfortable to be around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cR3FZupRUM&ab_channel=CHCHNews
Oakville teacher faces international attention over tight attire and very large prosthetic breasts
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Interview with PPC leader Maxime Bernier regarding Oakville shop teacher 'Busty Lemieux'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leZfl-t6e1g&ab_channel=Pandora%27sBox
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