The equivalent in Oakville would be the Ministry of Labour.
Workplace safely rules here generally apply to the EMPLOYER, in this case HDSB. They would be the ones who would be in trouble for failing to ensure workplace safely rules were followed - the employee isn’t the one the law is enforced against.
I am reasonably familiar with most workplace safety rules in Ontario. However, it’s possible there are some differences or exceptions in how they are applied in education settings.
I’ve been at work since 7:30 am busting my tail. On my first break now.
Why shouldn’t it be in the pit, It’d just get closed anywhere else.
I’m pretty sure that’s the point of the question. The usual reason for it to be in the Pit would be some sort of outrage. But there’s nothing here to be outraged about–unless one is transphobic.
This is o why I don’t like when people answer accusations. Let the OP have to explain themselves. These sorts of rhetorical tests don’t work if other people chime in.
In the sense that you mean, they don’t work anyway. Chela sure as shit didn’t come back and say, “You got me, I’m an enormous transphobic asshole,” did he?
Not in so many words. No.
Trans or not, it’s at least a bit ridiculous for a teacher to show up to work wearing fake breasts the size of compact cars with huge fake nipples poking out her shirt. Come on.
I can’t see this as anything but attention-seeking. Seeking attention is fine in some cases, like if this is a protest or something like that, but I’m not sure that school, let alone shop class, is the place for it.
If she follows shop safety rules, I don’t see the problem. As far as I can tell, people are upset because they don’t like the way she looks or they don’t like the fact that she’s trans. Either way, they can fuck right off.
But, but, what about their right to police other people’s bodies?
I mean, there were huge fake nipples poking out her shirt!
Maybe I’m biased. In junior high, I almost lost a finger. Forty years later, I still have very little feeling past the cut mark. It happened because I was watching the wood, not the blade.
Adding something that is intentionally distracting to shop class is not a good mix.
So she’s distracting the first time the kids see her; so is the new kid from CA, and did you see Cindy’s hair - it was green! Life is distractions.
Can we at least be a BIT serious here? It’s perfectly okay to hold that some forms of dress and presentation are professional and appropriate for a given workplace setting and some are not.
The only thing that matters are the rules published by the school, and whether or not she is violated them. Since we don’t know the rules, we can’t say whether or not she is violating them.
While the story appears to be true, the photo accompanying it may not be. It may be faked or photoshopped, or show the teacher outside of school as she appeared in a casual setting.
I am as trans-supportive as they come but that story and picture as presented seems a bit much. I think “is this manner of dress distracting or disruptive in a school setting?” is a fine benchmark for how both students and teachers should behave, even if this is often weaponized against expression in schools. If a cisgender woman came to school to teach shop in similarly oversized fake breasts and wig I don’t doubt she would face the same kind of response.
All that aside, I don’t trust this article any further than I can throw it and I’d bet any amount of money that it’s been sensationalized beyond truthfulness. Even if every aspect of it is true then it’s only taking what should be a local dispute and turning it into grist for further anti-trans outrage, as demonstrated by our local Terfs.
Well, in terms of the rules of HDSB and the collective agreement applying to the relevant teachers’ union, that’s true. One is perfectly entitled to opine on the intelligence of those rules. If the HDSB said it was okay for a teacher to wear his leather fetish outfit to school, a reasonable adult would be entitled to say “that is really stupid and they should alter the rules to prohibit that.”
This outfit violates the STUDENT dress code. I’d kinda hope the teacher dress code would be even more strict.
That’s kind of where I’m at. It’s a “true story” to the extent it’s true that it’s a story. As to whether it really means what some people are saying it means… I need more information.
Sort of, but also, I don’t need more information. Worst plausible case, she’s got some issues going on and it’s going to lead to her being a much worse teacher going forward than she’s been up until now. And “high school shop teacher isn’t very good at her job” isn’t international news.
I’m kinda hoping that picture is fake, because the person in that pic looks like someone in a Russ Meyer’s movie. And those are “joke women.” I’d assume if she’s transitioning she’d prefer to actually look like a woman. That picture looks like the football players in my high school who’d dress up as cheerleaders for the homecoming pep rally.
Just to be clear, the point of stories like this is to get people to say, “oh yeah, well, if this is true I wouldn’t want that kind of trans person around kids,” or to feel like it’s okay to laugh at that kind of trans person. It’s bigotry training.
Even if/when the story is debunked - and I bet one thousand quatloos that it will be - the damage has been done.