The principal of an Ottawa public school has apologized for asking a student to remove the Palestinian flag as their profile picture.

  • Pyr_Pressure
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    1 year ago

    Why does school administration often feel like they are entitled to police the personal lives of students?

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      The article states in was an online class, and the student had it as his profile picture, so I’m assuming it was clearly visible in whatever teaching app they were using. I don’t think that counts as your personal life tbh.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah I don’t think it’s unreasonable to ask him to take it down in that case. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Same if it was an Israeli flag.

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      They think they know better, but they are just as ignorant as the kids they are teaching.