An anticipated debate over a parent's right to object to certain books their children study at Toronto public schools didn't take place last night, leaving one trustee claiming the others deliberately shut him out of the meeting.
Trustee Josh Matlow had hoped to object to a policy that allows parents to ask a principal to excuse their child from reading any particular book. It's an informal process that made headlines earlier this school year over a Toronto parent's suggestion that Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird be replaced because of its language.
Mr. Matlow believes the board should define what "reasonable grounds" it requires before agreeing a student need not study a book, saying it borders on being too "politically correct." He added a "discussion" on the matter as a last-minute item on the agenda, but Trustee Cathy Dandy adjourned the meeting when he was out of the room. Mr. Matlow suggested she did so deliberately.
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