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New Brunswick’s contentious updated Policy 713 on sexual orientation and gender identity in schools will take effect July 1. (Shutterstock)

New Brunswick’s LGBTQ+ safe schools debate makes false opponents of parents and teachers

Andrea Garner, University of New Brunswick and Melissa Dockrill Garrett, University of New Brunswick

Guided by policy, practice and relationships with students, families and communities, teachers are charged with helping all students thrive. To suggest otherwise is disturbing.
Initially, inclusion in schools meant bringing students with disabilities, who had previously been educated in segregated institutions, into mainstream school. A classroom seen in Vancouver, B.C., April 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Achieving full inclusion in schools: Lessons from New Brunswick

Melissa Dockrill Garrett, University of New Brunswick and Andrea Garner, University of New Brunswick

Research about how New Brunswick education has envisioned inclusion since the 1980s offers lessons in rethinking how to realize schools that celebrate all students’ strengths.
Many provinces are focused on constraining the growth of teaching and staffing costs in education. Here, Ontario Premier Doug Ford with United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney, in Calgary, Oct. 5, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

Alberta election shows the threat to public education in Canada

Stephen Murgatroyd, University of Alberta

In calls for dramatic action to overhaul education in the name of improvement and efficiencies, we see the impact of global trends in privatization.

Related Topics

  1. Inclusive education
  2. inclusive schools
  3. LGBTQI+
  4. LGBTQ+ students
  5. New Brunswick
  6. New Brunswick politics
  7. Ontario education
  8. Public education
  9. Quebec education
  10. Special education

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