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Principal apologizes for asking student to remove Palestinian flag from online profile (www.cbc.ca)
submitted 11 months ago by sik0fewl@kbin.social to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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The principal of an Ottawa public school has apologized for asking a student to remove the Palestinian flag as their profile picture.

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[-] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 16 points 11 months ago

Why does school administration often feel like they are entitled to police the personal lives of students?

[-] baconisaveg@lemmy.ca 11 points 11 months ago

The article states in was an online class, and the student had it as his profile picture, so I'm assuming it was clearly visible in whatever teaching app they were using. I don't think that counts as your personal life tbh.

[-] ebits21@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 months ago

Yeah I don’t think it’s unreasonable to ask him to take it down in that case. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Same if it was an Israeli flag.

[-] sik0fewl@kbin.social -3 points 11 months ago

They think they know better, but they are just as ignorant as the kids they are teaching.

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