Letters: Name change cannot erase Saskatoon Christian school’s legacy

https://leaderpost.com/opinion/letters/letters-legacy-of-valour-academy-cannot-be-erased-with-a-name-change

Valour? What’s in a name? In recent days we have learned of the most recent name change of Legacy Christian Academy, formerly known as Christian Centre Academy and now Valour Academy.

This is a clear attempt to distance and whitewash the school and Mile2 church from the ongoing criminal trials and allegations of abuse by church and school staff. There is no valour in physical abuse. There is no valour in sexual abuse. There is no valour in emotional abuse.

It’s shameful, disgraceful and indefensible that the Saskatchewan Party Government permitted the name change, allowing the school to keep functioning. It’s further shameful it supplies taxpayer funding to such a notorious institution.

There is valour in owning up to one’s transgressions, acknowledging wrongs and attempting some recompense to those who have been abused. A name change for the school that sounds acceptable to me and many others would be “permanently closed.”