“Shocked” by the news in recent days about the behaviour of teachers at Montreal’s Bedford School, Premier François Legault said his government would consider “all options” to prevent such cases from happening again.
A few days ago, an Education Ministry report painted a devastating picture of the Montreal school, describing a toxic climate of fear and intimidation imposed by a clique of teachers.
According to the report, soccer was banned for girls and certain subjects, including ethics and religious culture and sex education, were not taught or were barely taught.
Since then, 11 teachers have been suspended at this school and other investigations are underway in other Montreal schools.
According to the premier, it was the right thing to do to correct the situation, but he stressed the need to go further to avoid other situations of this type.
He said he asked Education Minister Bernard Drainville along with the minister responsible for secularism, Jean-François Roberge, to think about ways to “strengthen controls and secularism in schools and to …