Parents at Kayla Lemieux High School say they are relieved that a Canadian teacher was fired over a heated debate about her wearing giant prosthetic breasts to show children – and so they hope it’s going to finally end the months of bomb threats they’ve endured pupils.
Lemieux, a store teacher at Oakville Trafalgar High School, was placed on paid leave on Tuesday – just weeks after The Post revealed that an worker doesn’t at all times wear a Z-cup prosthetic outside of the classroom.
“This could have happened six months ago,” Oakville parent Celina Close told The Post on Thursday.
Al Saplys, whose child is within the school’s twelfth grade, agreed.
“That is right,” he said. “I’m glad he was placed on administrative leave.”
The daddy added: “Truthfully, it is a distraction that nobody wants anymore and can help bring the school back to a level of normalcy.”
The school has been subject to constant bomb threats and gun violence warnings since a video of Lemieux wearing a prosthetic in her shop classroom went viral last 12 months.
The parents hope that with Lemieux gone, the threats will pass.
“I hope it will deter anyone who desires to call in bomb threats,” Saplys said, adding that it had grow to be the “biggest frustration” amongst some parents.
“The Halton County School Board didn’t view this as a crisis. They said the suitable things, but they didn’t act,” he continued.
“For some students it was a giant joke, others were very nervous due to the bomb threat. Some were very afraid that something would really occur.”
Close added: “It is a relief that the disruption and bomb threats will subside so students can concentrate on learning and having fun with high school life.”
Lemieux’s suspension got here just days after Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce and several other local politicians reprimanded the school board for “abdicating responsibility by not putting students’ interests and safety first.”
For months, offended parents have also been calling on the Halton school district to step up and implement a dress code to ban Lemieux from wearing her prosthetics in school.
The difficulty was raised at a board meeting on Wednesday evening after officials agreed in January to develop a professionalism policy.
The proposed policy was outlined on the meeting, but parents vowed to maintain fighting – arguing that the board didn’t specify a dress code or a timeline for when it could possibly be enforced.
“It just isn’t the top. There are still not enough details in regards to the dress code. I hope that we’ll implement the foundations of professionalism regarding the dress code as soon as possible, similar to the coed dress code. What’s so difficult about that? Saplys said.
“The Halton County School Board revolves around policy dates. There are no deadlines.”