Vote Against Woke has been looking to find unwoke school board trustee candidates in Ontario to encourage people to elect them. .“In my neighborhood, many people were asking the question, including myself, ‘which school trustee candidates are not woke?’” said Vote Against Woke representative Annie Larsson in a Monday interview. .“Our discussion revolves around the frustration of living in a country with high taxes with the supposed benefit of well-funded schools, but then facing the reality political infiltration of schools was getting to the point where we could not put our children in them.” .Larsson said Vote Against Woke is opposed to wokeism because it “introduces political ideology into the school system that a large part of the population either disagrees with or simply don't believe should be taught to children.” She said people are scared and annoyed with social justice. .Vote Against Woke has created a database of Ontario school board trustee candidates opposed to wokeism who people should vote for. All people have to do is find their school board on the website and make a note of who to support. .Larsson said it identifies unwoke trustee candidates by crowd sourcing. Through feedback from Twitter and the website, she said it compiles data. .The advocacy group does not dictate or suggest policies to the unwoke trustees it recommends. She said policies vary across the political spectrum, except “the ‘woke’ spectrum has been cut out.” .Larsson said about 5% of candidates running as trustees identified as unwoke. She added some woke school boards such as the Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) are seeing more unwoke candidates running “as a citizen response.” .The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) took legal action against the WRDSB on behalf of former teacher Carolyn Burjoski in June. .READ MORE: Justice Centre files lawsuit against Ontario school board for expelling teacher.“Ms. Burjoski is a former teacher with sincere concerns about the appropriateness of the sexual content being shared with elementary school-aged children in Waterloo Region schools,” said JCCF lawyer Jorge Pineda. .“The board’s decision to silence her not only deprives her of her right to freedom of expression under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but also deprives the public of hearing an informed dissenting voice on an issue that affects their children.”.Larsson admitted Vote Against Woke is run by a small group of parents with children in schools who are concerned about the education system. .“(We have) to get politics out of schools and become the best education system in the world,” she said. .This group resembles Blueprint for Canada, which has been advocating for people to elect conservative school board trustee candidates in British Columbia and Ontario. .READ MORE: Group mobilizes to elect anti-woke school board trustees in BC, Ontario.“It was put together over the last two months by a group of parents, educators, and other citizens, mainly in Ontario,” said Blueprint for Canada founder Peter Wallace. .“We have serious concerns regarding the current state of the provincial public education systems across Canada and the influence of divisive ideology manifesting itself in the curriculum.”
