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Safe Schools: The Threat From Within?, Donn Short
Safe Schools: The Threat From Within?, Donn Short
Donn Short
Safe school policies in many urban schools in Ontario have featured security guards, electronic surveillance, student identification tags, discipline, and zero tolerance. In 2000, the Ontario Ministry of Education passed the Safe Schools Act, which set out a list of offences that could trigger expulsion, suspension, and other disciplinary responses. Interestingly, it did not define safety. In a parallel move, the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) adopted The Equity Foundation Statement in 1999 – a comprehensive commitment to equity and a rally against racism, homophobia, sexism, and oppression based on class. This article explores the disconnect between students’ and teachers’ …
Conversations In Equity And Social Justice: Constructing Safe Schools For Queer Youth, Donn Short
Conversations In Equity And Social Justice: Constructing Safe Schools For Queer Youth, Donn Short
Donn Short
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Queers, Bullying And Schools: Am I Safe Here?, Donn Short
Queers, Bullying And Schools: Am I Safe Here?, Donn Short
Donn Short
This article reports on interviews conducted with students and educators in various Toronto-area high schools in an attempt to gauge how and to what extent so-called "formal" law (laws, policies, regulations) interacts with other, sometimes, competing normative or- ders, such as gender codes, sexuality, race, religion, in the educational setting. This approach is necessary to understand how anti-harassment and anti-homophobia policies are complicated by these other regulating influences.