In the famous 1925 Scopes trial, the confessed goal was to put the law on trial and to humiliate the state for passing it
Last week the Ontario Superior Court delivered a ruling in the case of the great curriculum rewind. In August the government of Doug Ford, following through on one of its preoccupations, issued an order replacing the Liberals’ newish sex-education curriculum with the slightly less trendy one that had existed before.
The teachers’ union acknowledged that, in theory, a new government has the authority to change school curriculums. But its version of the theory was, as you might expect, restrictive and fussy. What was different about the Tories’ action, it contended, was its specifically backward character. By trying to rewind history very slightly, the new gang at Queen’s Park was trying to exclude new topics featured in the 2015 curriculum from the classroom.
The government, ETFO added, had announced the changes with especial glee and anti-Liberal indignation Probably the real point of the lawsuit was for the teachers to get all this down in writing. They lost the case, but successfully established standing before the court, and got the judges to define and reiterate the government’s obligations under the federal Charter of Rights, the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Ontario Education Act.
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