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Every Canadian teacher needs to see this.

“I know a lot of us just wish we could just go to school and have a normal day, and not just have to worry about ... ‘Oh, what’s going to happen today?’” Morgan Reevie, 15, told HuffPost Canada, in an interview about her experiences as a Black high-school student, growing up in a small town near Peterborough, Ont.

Anti-Black bullying and systemic racism in schools have been more widely reported across the country in recent years, yet, among educators and school administrators, there’s still often an unwillingness to acknowledge this and make changes., 15, from Markham, Ont., told HuffPost Canada, about times when he’d talked about some of the issues affecting Black Canadian kids and felt gaslit when his educators responded, “Oh, racism doesn’t happen here,” or, “It’s not as bad in Canada.

Watch the full video above to hear more from two Black Canadian students on what Canada’s schools should do to fight anti-Black racismAmong the many incidents reported in Canadian media: The Montreal mother of an elementary school student filed a complaint with Quebec’s Human Rights and Youth Rights Commission, in 2019, after her son was being beaten and called the N-word by classmates,Winnipeg student Imani Pinder had to leave St.

Institutionalized racism in schools can have a lifelong impact on Black students’ career and higher education opportunities as well as their sense of self-worth. In Ontario, for example, Black students are

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