Ontario Premier Doug Ford is calling on the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) to urgently conduct an investigation into a field trip that saw students attend a rally where pro-Palestinian slogans were being chanted.
The province’s largest school board has been fielding heavy criticism since students attending an event in support of the Grassy Narrows First Nation last week were encouraged to chant “From Turtle Island to Palestine, occupation is a crime.”
Ford criticized the school board at an unrelated press conference in Cobourg, Ont., Sept. 23, calling the decision to take students on the trip “disgraceful.”
“You’re trying to indoctrinate our kids. They should be in the classroom learning about reading, writing, spelling, arithmetic, the whole shebang,” Ford said. “But instead, the TDSB and these teachers want to bring them down to a rally, a Palestinian rally, and it’s ridiculous.”…