Education Assistant's Human Rights Application Dismissed As No Reasonable Prospect Of Success

In a decision dated April 21, 2015, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario dismissed an application brought by an Education Assistant against the York Region District School Board on a preliminary basis as the application had "no reasonable prospect of success."

In Adegorite v. York Region District School Board, 2015 HRTO 498, the applicant was a 36-year-old Black man who had been working for the school board on a casual basis since 2010. While he was working at a secondary school in December 2013, the applicant surreptitiously obtained the phone number of a 16-year-old female student attending the school. While the student was not looking, the applicant picked up her phone and memorized her phone number. Later that same day, the applicant called her several times. The student did not recognize the phone number and did not answer; she sent a text message asking "Okay, who is this?". The applicant wrote back "Lol now u curious! Trouble finder! Lol." and sent a message