(LifeSiteNews) — A school board located in a predominantly Conservative Christian part of Manitoba will now have a governmental “adviser” oversee its activities after a pro-“diversity” parents group complained it was being not “inclusive” enough because some of its trustees participated in the 1 Million March 4 Children rally.
The Hanover School Division located in southern Manitoba includes an area that has many people of the Mennonite community, who are known for living very traditionally, oftentimes shunning many forms of technology. The Mennonites are also Christian and hold conservative views regarding family and sexuality.
Due to some recent motions that the Hanover school district tried to pass and after complaints from a group called the Hanover Parent Alliance for Diversity, the radical New Democratic Party (NDP) provincial government of Manitoba appointed retired superintendent Kelly Barkman to advise the board.
The parental “diversity” group had wanted six trustees from Hannover removed via a letter sent to the province’s NDP education minister Nello Altomare. The group also started a petition asking that board chair Brad Unger, along with assistant chair Jeff Friesen and trustees Lynn Barkman, Shayne Barkman, Cheryl Froese, and Dallas Wiebe, all be fired.
The parents’ group was upset that the board voted 5-4 to give it full hiring authority over both gym and music teachers. Also, it complained that another motion, which was not successful, had called for grade 7 students being taught sexual education to be separated by gender, calling it “harmful and exclusionary” to transgender students.
According to Altomare, the appointment of the adviser was “a move that we were proactive in making because in the end, we want to support school divisions and the best way to do that is to provide exemplars,” as noted to the Winnipeg Free Press.
He confirmed that the adviser will give “hiring” advice.
According to a member of the Manitoba Progressive Conservative Party, MLA (Member of the Legislative Assembly) Grant Jackson, who serves as the education critic, the adviser appointment is really nothing more than the NDP government looking to “babysit democratically elected officials.”
“The NDP are talking out of both sides of their mouths on this issue; they were some of the loudest supporters of school division autonomy while they were in opposition,” he said.
When it comes to the new NDP government of Manitoba under NDP Premier Wab Kinew, LifeSiteNews has reported extensively on how it is a radical pro-abortion administration that also promotes and supports pro-gender-bending ideology.