Peel District School Program helps to stereotype boys as perpetrators of abuse
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Peel School Board program helps to stereotype boys as
“perpetrators” and girls as “victims” of violence
By Mike March, Justice Reporter
May 24, 2007
Brampton, Ontario
As if boys were not already facing enough
daunting challenges within an education system in
which boys are falling behind the girls at alarming
rates, things have taken yet a further step backwards
for them in the Region of Peel.
Recently, a parent visiting his children’s school
was shocked to see brochures of a program being
promoted in the schools by the Peel District Board of
Education which unfairly targets only one gender as
the perpetrator of domestic violence while completely
ignoring the other. Men of course are the ones
labelled as the bad guys in this ill conceived program
which appears to be geared into indoctrinating
children to accepting the anti-male agenda of radical
feminist and women’s shelter groups.
The program is called, “Breaking the Silence”, is
being promoted with the assistance of Interim Place
and the Salvation Army Honeychurch Family life
Resource Centre, both of which are shelters for
women only. No battered or abused men welcomed in
these places, of course.
Brochures being distributed to students and
teachers are biased and deal with only the issue of
woman abuse while totally ignoring the issue of
domestic violence against men. Rather than dealing
with the issue of domestic violence in a accurate
manner and recognizing that domestic violence is a
problem affecting both genders, the program refers to
domestic violence using the term “woman abuse.”
The gender bias and stereotyping of men as
abusers is glaring in the program’s brochure. In bold
letters one title reads, “Women abuse is about
control.” A second heading