Canada
The GALE Right to Education Monitor has been done in Canada.
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Score on the GALE Checklist
| Item | Forbidden | Discouraged | No policy | Encouraged | Supported | No data | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Full access to schools? | x | no comments | |||||
| 2. Freedom of self expression? | x | no comments | |||||
| 3. Protection against bullying? | x | Varies widely based on geography and school administration. | |||||
| 4. No drop-out? | x | no comments | |||||
| 5. Equal performance? | x | no comments | |||||
| 6. Is there public information? | x | Again, really depends. Does legal same sex marriage matter more than not having anti-bullying policies? Hard to say. | |||||
| 7. Attention in school resources? | x | In my experience, most schools have very limited or no information on safe sex and gender diversity from students if the students themselves. | |||||
| 8. Resources for LGBT students? | x | Very limited. | |||||
| 9. Support services open to LGBT? | x | There are supports that students can access, but none specific to and few trained in responding to the needs of queer kids. | |||||
| 10. Peer-learning opportunities? | x | Depends on the place, but courts have upheld rights to access. | |||||
| 11. Is staff supportive? | x | Many stories of incredibly support and incredible discrimination. | |||||
| 12. Is staff competent to teach? | x | Teachers receive no such training; ad hoc. | |||||
| 13. Is staff competent to support? | x | Little to no support offered by government agencies. Some civil society groups do outreach, but their resources and thus reach are limited. | |||||
| 14. Supportive school environment? | x | Some are great, some are awful. | |||||
| 15. Employment protection for staff? | x | no comments |
The score is 0% forbidden (denying), 80% discouraged or no policy (ambiguous), 20% encouraged or supportive (supportive). We score this country therefore as ambiguous.
This report is based on one respondent, who based the results on the Canada report on education 2012.
Relevant Conventions
| Convention against Discrimination in Education | not signed | signed | ratified | succession |
| Convention on Technical and Vocational Education | not signed | signed | ratified | succession |
| International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights | not signed | signed | ratified | succession |
| Convention on the Rights of the Child | not signed | signed | ratified | succession |
| Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women | not signed | signed | ratified | succession |
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This page was last updated on 8 March 2013.