Global News Winnipeg: Parents seek apology for school lockdown and being labeled ‘a disturbance’

Sean Carleton, a University of Manitoba professor and historian of education says racist in education didn’t end with residential schools.

“We need to remember that public schools are also part of the colonial project and are not equal and safe spaces, especially for Indigenous children, often,” he says, and for parents as “there’s a long history of the use of dehumanizing stereotypes – racist stereotypes –  in colonial society as a way of depicting all Indigenous people as violent and aggressive as a way of delegitimizing legitimate concerns.”

It’s particularly harmful at an inner-city school where half the population is Indigenous.

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