Toronto District School Board apologises for ‘horrific situation’. Canada’s largest public school board has apologised after students at one of its schools directed Nazi salutes at their Jewish teacher last week. The antisemitic incident took place on Thursday at Valley Park Middle School in North York, Canada, which is overseen by the Toronto District School Board (TDSB).
via independent: Canadian students give Nazi salute to Jewish teacher whose parents survived the Holocaust
siehe auch: Call for more Holocaust education after Toronto kids give Jewish teacher Nazi salute. Educator at Valley Park Middle School is daughter of Holocaust survivors; police, authorities investigating latest in a number of incidents in city’s public school system. Police and school authorities are investigating an incident in which Toronto middle school students gave the Hitler salute to a teacher who is the daughter of Holocaust survivors. The incident is the third such display of Nazi symbology at middle schools in North York, a Toronto district, in recent weeks. “One of our teachers, a French teacher, a Jewish teacher walked out of the room,” Shari Schwartz-Maltz, a spokeswoman for the Toronto District School Board, told City News, a local TV news outlet, on Tuesday. “When she came back into the room, several students surrounded her and gave her the Heil Hitler salute. This particular incident was very hateful, very hurtful, very upsetting to the teacher who happens to be Jewish, and she’s just allowed me to share with you that she’s also the child of Holocaust survivors. So this is something that hits her in the heart.”