A worker’s racial discrimination complaint against a school board has some reasonable prospect of success and will proceed to a hearing, the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal has ruled.
The worker was an Indigenous educator for the Vancouver School Board (VSB). She was hired in 2006 as part of an Aboriginal Education Enhancement initiative and was the only Indigenous teacher at her school.
The initiative was designed to increase Indigenous student’s sense of pride, acceptance, and caring in their schools while ensuring their chances of academic success improved. The worker strove to support all racialized and gender diverse students, although her anti-racist advocacy sometimes stoked tensions with white educators at the school.
