St. Davids teacher faces discipline for using offensive handout
St. Davids teacher faces discipline for using offensive handout

By Evan Loree  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The District School Board of Niagara is in the hot seat after a kindergarten teacher from St. Davids Public School shared a racist handout with her students. Niagara-on-the-Lake resident Tracee Smith discovered the offensive handout crumpled up in her four-year-old son Ekkian’s backpack when he came home from school on Monday, Sept. 19. “You go through a little bit of emotions very quickly,” Smith said. At first she rolled her eyes and then she wanted to throw up her hands. “Like, this is for real?” she said. The handout portrayed stereotypically drawn Indigenous children and was titled “Two Little Indians are eating ice cream.” The goal of the activity was to identify the letter “I” in each scoop of ice cream. Smith is

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