(Canadian Press) Eleven teachers at a Montreal elementary school have been suspended after a government investigation found they fostered a “toxic” climate of fear and intimidation.
In a move it described as unprecedented, the Centre de services scolaires de Montréal said its director general asked administrators to immediately suspend the teachers at Bedford school in the city’s multicultural Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood.
It said Isabelle Gélinas made the decision Thursday evening after a provincial investigative committee passed on the names of educators who allegedly subjected students to violence as well as claims that autism does not exist.
The suspensions will continue until investigative committees have wrapped up their work, Quebec’s largest school service centre said Saturday evening.
