Snitch Culture Mandated at B.C. School
It appears we have arrived at peak snitch culture—or at least the attempt to engineer it.
Students at Ladysmith Secondary School on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, who wish to attend an upcoming school dance must first sign a Dance Code of Conduct contract and have their parent/guardian co-sign it. The contract requires them (among many things) to report any "incidents that demean others or threaten the personal or emotional safety of individuals or groups."
If any students fail to report their friends for the supremely vague offense of imperiling someone else’s “emotional safety,” those students who keep mum “could face discipline (that is restorative, preventative, and educative in nature)."
Ummmm… Re-education Camp much?
Additionally, the full-page contract in fine print demands that all students who just want to hang with their friends at a school dance for an evening must commit to “Defending human rights according to the BC Human Rights Code” while enjoying themselves on the dance floor.
It should be noted that even adults in positions of authority don’t understand or correctly apply the BC Human Rights Code (which can be read in full here, if you have a free day). They turn to the courts to sort it out for them.
Yet our teenagers at a school dance are required to have a nuanced understanding of this extensive legal document—and to actively defend it—or risk being sentenced to re-education camp.
While they shake their booty on the dance floor, Ladysmith students must multi-task and simultaneously “combat racism [and] support gender identity and equity and cultural practices.”
When I shared this school dance contract on X today, respondents remarked:
“This is Stasi level scary. What have we become?”
“This reminds me of my own youth. In communist Czechoslovakia.”
“Such a Cultural Revolution tactic. #strugglesession So now we’re at the sanctioned bullying phase?”
“Sounds like a recipe for disaster. ‘Emotional safety?’ WTH? That could literally be anything.”
And quite a bit more.
The authoritarian project requires a snitch culture to keep it afloat. And Ladysmith Secondary School is doing its best to groom the next generation of snitches with its “No snitchy, no dancy” contract for students.
That is truly a sad development and one that can only damage a child's development in turn. What happened to simply finding your way in the world? This type of "overreach" is frightening. Thanks for informing us, Kim!
My heart sinks when I read this. But you have also reminded me of another example of snitch culture, it is here in Quebec where students were told to report any student who spoke English at school. You have political correctness gone mad, we have language laws and language police that enforce using the French language, and it is equivalently mad, insane, evil.