{"id":18141,"date":"2021-11-04T01:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T01:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.canadianpathram.com\/its-not-a-costume-first-nations-student-mocked-for-wearing-regalia-to-b-c-school\/"},"modified":"2021-11-04T02:03:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T02:03:32","slug":"it-is-not-a-dressing-up-first-nations-scholar-mocked-for-carrying-regalia-to-b-c-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadianpathram.com\/it-is-not-a-dressing-up-first-nations-scholar-mocked-for-carrying-regalia-to-b-c-college\/","title":{"rendered":"‘It is not a dressing up’: First Nations scholar mocked for carrying regalia to B.C. college"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Vancouver – <\/span><\/p>\n


\n\tThe superintendent of the college district that features Kitimat, B.C., has apologized to a scholar at Mount Elizabeth Center Secondary after the boy\u2019s trainer ridiculed him for carrying his conventional Haisla Nation regalia and cedar hat to class.<\/p>\n


\n\tAlex Grant mentioned his stepson Gregory selected to put on the regalia for picture day on Monday.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThe trainer when he received to the classroom had mocked him, and requested him, ‘What\u2019s up with the costume in the present day?’ in entrance of the whole class,\u201d mentioned Grant.<\/p>\n


\n\tCollege district 82 superintendent Janet Meyer mentioned she has apologized to Gregory, his mother and father and the Haisla Nation.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cA scholar at one in every of our colleges in Coast Mountain College District had an expertise on Monday that was very a lot not in step with the beliefs of the college district,\u201d mentioned Meyer. \u201cIt\u2019s an expertise we don\u2019t assume any scholar in B.C. or Canada or wherever on the earth ought to expertise.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThe district received\u2019t title the trainer or reveal if he may face any disciplinary motion.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThere’s an inside human sources course of that we’re following, and that\u2019s all I’m at liberty to say,\u201d mentioned Meyer.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe superintendent sat down with Gregory, his mother and father and the college’s principal on Tuesday.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cThere’s an investigation occurring now that\u2019s all they\u2019ll say to us about that. The matter is of their arms and it\u2019s being taken care of,\u201d mentioned Grant, who added an apology shouldn’t be sufficient.<\/p>\n


\n\tMeyer mentioned the district is aware of it has work to do to regain the belief of First Nations college students in Kitimat.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cWe’ll work very intently with the Haisla Nation round this explicit incident to place some buildings in locations that can assist us be higher,” mentioned Meyer. \u201cThe entire adults in that college are able to pay attention.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tThere’s one message Grant desires them to listen to loud and clear concerning the Haisla Nation\u2019s conventional gown.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s not a dressing up,\u201d he mentioned. \u201cWe take our regalia and our traditions very significantly.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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