A retired teacher is filing a defamation lawsuit against Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) and its board chair for calling her “transphobic” and ordering her to stay home from school after she raised questions about the age-appropriateness of sexual content in children’s books in an elementary school library earlier this year.
Carolyn Burjoski, who worked as a WRDSB teacher for 20 years, announced her legal action in a video on May 4, saying that the incident exposed “a serious problem” that school boards are “using language and human rights legislations as weapons to silence anyone who questions their policies.”
“In my view, the message to all teachers is clear: ‘If you speak up, you will be punished,’” she said.
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