April 28, 2020

An Open Letter to Durham District School Board Trustees

by Debbie L. Kasman in Transforming Education

Dear Durham District School Board Trustees,

In the summer of 2019, you hired a third-party investigator to delve into allegations of harassment by senior officials in the Durham District School Board. The investigator concluded that the Director of Education, Lisa Millar, and the Associate Director, David Visser, formed a duopoly of power, contravened Ontario’s laws and board policies, made repeated abusive, derogatory remarks to senior staff, and adopted a vindictive dislike towards certain superintendents.

April 1, 2014

The Role of Spirituality in Public Education

by Debbie L. Kasman in Transforming Education, Spirituality

I believe we have raised a generation of kids who appear to be morally and ethically deprived, but it's important to realize that we ourselves are the same. As adults, we are just as seduced by narcissism and materialism as our kids. We are information rich but ethically and morally poor. Biologist Edward O. Wilson says we are "drowning in information while starving for wisdom."