In a shocking and brazen display of disregard of educational integrity, Toronto District School Board staff member Audley Salmon, Associate Director of Equity—whose taxpayer-funded salary is $262,104—proudly admits that not a single historian was consulted in the school renaming process. This stunning admission comes despite a staff report explicitly calling for historians to be involved.
Instead, in a deliberate act of obfuscation, staff members chose to consult sociologists with no expertise in historical analysis—individuals steeped in anti-historical and anti-colonial biases. Furthermore, parents and alumni, the very stakeholders who should have had a voice in this major change, were entirely shut out. This was not an oversight—it was an intentional assault on historical accuracy, Canadian history, and was a willful rewriting of the past to serve an ideological agenda by a school board.
This kind of reckless manipulation is nothing short of a crime against education, and those responsible must be held accountable. The TDSB has has been co-opted by those who are not stewards of academic honesty, and the Province must step in to save Canada's largest school board. Parents and students deserve better.
The questioners in this excerpt are School Trustees James Li and Weidong Pei, who correctly identify the failures and flaws in this renaming process.