Rex Murphy: Sometimes a public backlash is exactly what’s needed to kick some common sense into our increasingly woke school boards.
Such is the case with the Toronto District School Board’s (TDSB) insane decisions not to allow students to attend book club events featuring Marie Henein, an outstanding criminal lawyer the board took issue with because of who she chose to defend, and Nadia Murad, a Nobel Prize-winning woman who had been a victim of ISIL, endured torments too ugly to speak, but managed to escape and now champions young women the world over.
The backlash against these determinedly witless and frankly insulting decisions pushed the board into damage control. It was all a “misunderstanding.” Of course kids can read Henein’s book, and Murad will get a chance to speak to students in February.
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