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• Coming together under the “Fund Our Schools” banner, the rally organized by the Toronto & York Region Labour Council coincides with the vote on the 2024-2025 school budget at the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) headquarters at 5050 Yonge Street.
• Drawing attention to the real cause of the crisis in the schools, the Fund Our Schools campaign.
• It highlights that since 2018, inflation-adjusted funding had been cut by well over $1200 per student by the Conservative Government.
• These stories revealed a myriad of issues in schools, from lack of support for students with special needs, violence, and overwork.

• Students are experiencing an attention, learning, and mental health crisis because of prolific and compulsive use of social media products.
• This action calls on social media giants to remediate these enormous costs to the education system, to redesign their products to keep students safe.
• Neinstein LLP, a Toronto-based boutique litigation firm, has been retained by the aforementioned school boards to represent them in their fight for social media change.
• The goal of the litigation is to provide school boards with the resources needed to support student programming and services, and to respond to the school-based problems social media giants have caused.

• The public heard about a lack of support for LGBTQ2S+ identities, chaotic and divisive school trustee meetings and a rise in violence in schools.
• A major contributing factor to this rise in violence in schools is the chronic underfunding of public education and the social service sector.

Violence in schools

• An alarming three-quarters (77 per cent) of members of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO), said they have “personally experienced violence or witnessed violence against another staff member” in a recent survey conducted by Strategic Communications.
• Black and other minoritized youth and educators are becoming collateral damage by being pushed out of schools due to wilful neglect of institutions in not supporting their needs.

The school-to-prison pipeline

• The school-to-prison pipeline continues to cast a dark shadow over the education system in Ontario.
• This “pipeline” refers to the systematic processes that push students, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, out of the educational system and into the criminal justice system.
• This trend disproportionately affects marginalized communities, particularly Black and Indigenous students, perpetuating a cycle of poverty, systemic discrimination and mass incarceration.

Tragic impact on marginalized communities

• This is a result of many institutions and leaders at all three levels of government collectively failing to support the needs of racialized communities.
• Suspensions and expulsions disproportionately affect marginalized students.

Calls to action

• Redirect funds towards mental health services, counsellors, social workers and community programs that prioritize prevention and timely intervention.
• There needs to be a more urgent implementation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s 94 Calls to Action.
• At the end of April, Ontario’s Ministry of Education announced funding to combat violence and improving safety in schools through community partnerships.
• We all have to do our part to hold institutions accountable, including for failures and neglect.

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