A former student and parent of Kâpapâmahchakwêw – Wandering Spirit School in Toronto are calling on Canada’s largest school board to create a policy that vets applicants who claim to be Indigenous when they’re applying for positions at Indigenous-focused schools or programs.
Michael Peters recently graduated from Wandering Spirit and says in his later years at the school, some students began to take issue with a teacher he says was “claiming to be Indigenous.”
“It really impacted the learning of the students and it really impacted the teaching of Indigenous peoples, because if these people aren’t Indigenous, how can they really teach through
