An Ontario school board that stopped a former elementary school teacher from questioning the age-appropriateness of sexual content in children’s books allowed in her school’s library, has submitted a Statement of Defence, denying the allegations claimed in her defamation lawsuit.
Carolyn Burjoski, who filed a Statement of Claim against the Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) on April 22, says while she expected the board to deny “any and all wrongdoing,” she didn’t foresee the approach they would take in their counterargument.
“What I did not expect is that, in their defence, this board—who cut off my presentation and ejected me from the Trustees’ meeting, forbade me from speaking to my students and colleagues, and publicly maligned my reasonable comments as transphobic hate speech—is now pleading before the Court that I am trying to suppress their free expression by suing them!” Burjoski said in a video shared on Twitter on Aug. 3….