Leave it to over-sensitized teachers and public school bureaucrats to think that the biggest problem with taking children on a field trip to attend a political rally is that they might have heard something that “negatively impacted” them.

Last week, some Toronto students were taken on a school trip in what was billed in advance as an “educational opportunity … to learn about Indigenous activism, environmental justice and human rights.” Parents were told that students would “observe,” but wouldn’t be “participating in the rally itself.”