Kids shouldn’t go to schools named after John A. Macdonald
Should public schools be allowed to bear the name of Canadians associated with terrible treatment of Indigenous people"
The Ontario Teachers Union thinks not. A few days ago, it passed a resolution urging school boards to remove the name of Canada?s first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, from public schools. It’s no coincidence that this comes just as Americans are hotly debating whether statues and monuments memorializing the Confederacy should be permanently removed.
Not surprisingly, opposition to the Ontario teachers was swift. Many people trotted out the “political correctness gone mad” argument, saying this amounts to the “whitewashing of history.”
As a Métis woman and mom, it strikes me as particularly ironic that they?re worried about history being lost. After all, the very fact that we send our children to schools named after the architect of Indigenous genocide through the residential schools attempts to remove our story, negate our well-being and ignore our continued survival. It is, in fact, a push to actively lose history. Perhaps if the education system were truly inclusive, particularly of Indigenous history, people and issues, the voices asking for the man who condemned an entire culture to be removed from the places where our children learn would be louder, because they would include more Canadians in the chorus.
I hear all the time that colonization happened 400 years ago, that it’s so far gone that we should...
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