As this B.C. teacher found out, even speaking the truth in class is enough to get an educator cancelled
Jim McMurtry, is the son of Roy McMurtry, a prominent Canadian lawyer, former high ranking politician, and retired chief justice of the Province of Ontario.
In turn, Jim is an award-winning history teacher whose career stretches over nearly 40 years. He freely and apologetically admits that his “non-conformist teaching which sometimes combats the political indoctrination of schools” was instrumental in his being unfairly punished with two lengthy unpaid suspensions for teaching the truth about Canada’s Indian Residential Schools (IRSs), the end result being his current battle against permanent termination by the thoroughly woke British Columbia Abbotsford School District Board.
McMurtry's second suspension followed a directive that teachers “educate” (read: indoctrinate) their students about the spurious claim by the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc (Kamloops) band that "the remains of 215 children who were students of the Kamloops Indian Residential School," some "as young as three years old” had been discovered buried at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School (KIRS), in the process leaving the impression that they had been murdered by its priests and nuns.
Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc (Kamloops Indian Band)
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF
May 27, 2021, Kamloops – It is with a heavy heart that Tk’emlúps te Secwé pemc Kukpi7 (Chief) Rosanne Casimir confirms an unthinkable loss that was spoken about but never documented by the Kamloops Indian Residential School. This past weekend, with the help of a ground penetrating radar specialist, the stark truth of the preliminary findings came to light – the confirmation of the remains of 215 children who were students of the Kamloops Indian Residential School.
Instead, McMurtry correctly informed his students that an abundant historical evidence shows that the main cause of death among students when the IRSs operated was tuberculosis.
Despite such information being listed in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s own reports, on May 31, 2021 McMurtry was marched out of the high school calculus class he was temporarily filling in for and given an eight-month suspension.
According to the following opinion piece written by celebrated author and editorial writer Barbara Kay (re-posted below with her kind permission):
The students, he told me, were extremely upset by what they believed to have been a mass murder of children at the hands of the KIRS nuns and priests. Some of the girls, he said, were sobbing. As it happened, the previous day, McMurtry had reviewed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report, which said nothing about foul play at the schools.
So, he told me, when one girl said, “The priests murdered the (215) children by torturing them and leaving them out in the snow to die,” he sought to alleviate her and others’ distress by telling the class that, although tragic, “most residential-school deaths were from disease.”
Readers may recall that I published a previous piece about McMurtry’s travails on December 7, 2022.
McMurtry’s dismissal hearing is scheduled for January 25, 2023.
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