Alberta Catholic School Board Trustee Set to Participate in Sensitivity Training Due to LGBT-Related Social Media Post

An Alberta Catholic School Board trustee has kept her position but is facing sanctions and sensitivity training for a social media post that compared school children waving Nazi flags to their counterparts waving LGBT flags in a classroom.

On Aug. 30, Red Deer Trustee Monique LaGrange posted a photo of children waving Nazi flags beside another image of children waving LGBT flags. The caption said, “brainwashing is brainwashing.”

Although LaGrange took the post down, the Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools (RDCRS) voted to apply several sanctions. She is not to sit on any board committees, cannot speak on behalf of the board, and is not permitted to participate in events like graduation ceremonies, according to her lawyer James Kitchen.

Mr. Kitchen said she has also been ordered to undergo sensitivity training—something he said he finds concerning.

“This is just part of the broader, cancel-culture type trends, where we make sure we silence anything we disagree with,” he told The Epoch Times.

“We make sure we send these people to reeducation camps where we can sort of forcefully indoctrinate them to our views. And then make them comply with our view of the world.”

Ms. LaGrange must pay for the training herself and has been given 90 days to complete it, according to board motion documents provided to The Epoch Times.

“It seems that the courts have approved of this trend and that’s just the continuation of the gradual slide away from freedom of expression towards control of expression and publicly shaming anybody who doesn’t tow the party line or conform to the majority opinion,” Mr. Kitchen said.

“An additional motion was also passed for the Board of Trustees to write to the Minister of Education as to the dismissal of Trustee LaGrange,” the statement said.

The Epoch Times reached out to the Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools but got no not response by publication time.

Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaide has said each school board is responsible for developing a code of conduct for its trustees.

Removed as Association Director

The social media post also cost Ms. LaGrange her role as director of the Alberta Catholic School Trustee Association (ACSTA). It posted a Source link