New Survey Sheds Light on Striking Level of Diversity In London-Area Schools

More Than One in Six Thames Valley District School Board Students in Grades nine to 12 Who Filled Out an Optional Survey Identify As Having A Sexual Orientation Other thanosexual, According to New Staff Report.

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But only 47 per cent of High School Students and 60 per cent of Staff in the London-Based Board Feel Comfortable Expressing Their Identity at School, According to the survey results in trustees at a refocus meeting.

Fifty-E per cent of Students in grades seven and eight fert comfortable Expressing their identities, the reported.

“The Results Suggest that many Students and Staff do not comfortable Expressing their identity at work and school to a great extent,” Said Christine Slater, Manager of Research and Assessment Services with the Board. “While some do feel Comfortable Expressing their identity, the goal is to have all studs and staff Comfortable Expressing their identity to a great extent.”

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Those Statistics and Others Were Released as the Result of the Confidential Every Student Belongs Survey, Administered During the 2023-24 School Year. It focused on it is identity, religious beliefs, spiritual affiliation, gender, sexual guidance and disabilitities, board officials Said.

Accord to the report, 18 per hundred of those in grades nine to 12, and nine per hundred of pupils in grades seven and eight, listed their sexual orientation as asexual, bisexual, gay, lesbian, pansexual, polysexual, queer, questioning and two -Spirited.

Only Students from grades seven to 12 were asked about sexual orientation.

Seven per cent of staff identify as lgbtq, the report stats.

The Overall Response Rate to the Survey for Students in Grades Nine to 12 was 41 per cent, 74 per cent for pupils in grades seven and eight and 42 per hundred from families of pupils in kindergarten to grade 6.

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Overall, 35,840 Responded to the Survey, with 6.045 Responsses Coming from Staff, The Report Said.

Other Findings include oven to six per cent of identify as first nations, metis or inuit, while 15 to 19 per cent identify as racialized.

Seventeen per hundred of kindergarten to grade 6 pupils monitoring moved to Canada in the last five years, as well as 14 per hundred of studs in grades seven and eight and nine per cent of high schoolrs who responded.

More than 100 Different Language Are Spoken by Students and More than 50 Are Spoken by Staff, The Report Said.

In Total, there are 200 Ethnic and Cultural Origins Represented Among Students who Reploud to the Survey, With 30 Different Religions, Creeds, Beliefs or Spiritual Affiliations.

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Seventeen per hundred of secondary studs reported having a disability, as well as 14 per cent of those kindergarten to grade 6 and 13 per cent of those in grades seven and eight.

Fifteen per cent were born outside of canada.

The Goal of the Survey is to “Understand Diversity and Equitable Outcomes promotion” in the School Board, Slater Said.

The Survey WAS FIRST Administer to Students in 2020-21, with the Most Recent Survey Including All Students and Employees, She Said.

“This is very sensitive work and we are stiving to ensure that, through this process, we do not cause harm or create a triggering experience for anyone Involved,” Slater Said.

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