- Reaction score
- 3,949
- Points
- 1,260
Interesting details and questions this writer brings up....
.... One teacher is not the principal villain here. The fault lies with RMC’s leadership for not rallying with a fighting spirit to defend its decision. One hopes that RMC has sufficient battlefield courage to see off the fabrications of a lowly French teacher. It was likely the motion of the faculty board, comprising all the professors and chaired by the principal, which cowed the administration. That poses a rather more disturbing question. Does the faculty board motion accurately express the professoriate at RMC? If so, our future officers are being trained by those significantly out of step with the Canadian people and the rank-and-file members of the armed forces.
It may be that the motion was passed by the perpetually disgruntled at a sleepy meeting that only a few professors attended. But RMC is being evasive about the whole matter, with its public-affairs office unwilling to say what the motion actually was, how many were present at the meeting, whether the principal was present or not, and what the actual vote was. No doubt Dr. Sokolsky is embarrassed by the faculty motion, but he needs to explain more fully what actually happened, if only to assure his own cadets that they are not being taught by people far outside the mainstream of Canadian society ....