Three months after an education ministry review raised concerns of Islamophobia in Peel schools and some two weeks after the board placed a school principal on leave for alleged “xenophobic and racist” comments, students, teachers and parents have come forward to share their experiences. Black communities are organizing a seven-kilometre march on Wednesday that will end at the Peel District School Board just before its scheduled public meeting. Almost a quarter — 22.5 per cent — of Peel students identify as Muslim. “A few times there weren’t any Muslim teachers.” Couldn’t non-Muslim teachers help supervise? One of the Muslim teachers said many of them had held back from speaking to the media because they wanted to work with the board.

Source: thestar June 16, 2020 22:07 UTC