Four trustees of a controversy-mired western Manitoba school board met on Monday and voted to ban all but the Canadian, Manitoban and school flags, right after butting heads with a panel the province appointed to help guide them in their roles.
The Mountain View School Division board has nine seats on its board, so the four trustees present at Monday’s meeting weren’t enough to achieve the quorum required under the Public Schools Act — but they went ahead with a school boarding meeting anyway.
The province ordered a governance review of the school board in April, after trustee Paul Coffey gave a board meeting presentation in which he said residential schools started as a good thing, questioned the extent of abuse at the schools and called the term “white privilege” racist.
My question was more along the lines of why did they decide to push this rule (out of all the possible rules you can come up with) through? Was it just randomly decided to score political points? Was it to silence certain voices?
I don’t know.
Fair enough, maybe more information will come out as time goes by. Thanks for sharing the article though, sucks to see our school systems used for political theatre.
Flag restrictions are typically a way to ban Pride flags without actually saying it out loud.