Ontario Teachers Plead for Help as Schools Descend into Violent Mayhem

Editor’s Note: This is the fourth installment of an ongoing investigation into Ontario’s public-school system. The first installment, on the district’s adoption of “progressive discipline,” is available here. The second installment, on the district’s compromised mathematics curriculum, is available here. The third installment, which covers the push to abandon individualized education in the name of equity, can be read here.

James Murphy has been part of Ontario’s Dufferin-Peel Catholic school district since he was five years old. After graduating and going through teacher’s college, he was hired in 1981 by his former high-school principal. Over the coming decades Murphy’s kids would matriculate through the district.

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Editor’s Note: This is the fourth installment of an ongoing investigation into Ontario’s public-school system. The first installment, on the district’s adoption of “progressive discipline,” is available here. The second installment, on the district’s compromised mathematics curriculum, is available here. The third installment, which covers the push to abandon individualized education in the name of equity, can be read here.

James Murphy has been part of Ontario’s Dufferin-Peel Catholic school district since he was five years old. After graduating and going through teacher’s college, he was hired in 1981 by his former high-school principal. Over the coming decades Murphy’s kids would matriculate through the district.