How did a popular Calgary teacher get away with abuse over decades?
Posted December 13, 2022 7:14 am.
In today’s Big Story, a former Calgary teacher preyed on dozens of students physically, emotionally and sexually over a nearly 20-year period. How does a system ostensibly designed to protect children, allow something like this to go on for so long?
Omar Mouallem is a writer, editor, and filmmaker who wrote about Michael Gregory, the allegations of misconduct and abuse against him, and how the system repeatedly failed to protect the students he victimized.
“It seems like, at the heart of this, the [Calgary Board of Education] is making the claim that they owed no duty of care to the children who attended it’s school, which to me flies in the face of common sense,” he said.
Gregory could have been stopped before most of this happened, but he wasn’t. What can this horrific case teach us about protecting children from systematic abuse in the school system?
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