Alberta Influencer launches site to report teachers pushing ideology in schools

Berta Proud Dad, an Alberta political influencer, launched a website for parents and students to report teachers who may attempt to circumvent provincial law and push ideology in schools.

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Author: Clayton DeMaine

After an Alberta teacher promoted a loophole using Edmonton Oilers Pride flags to circumvent Alberta legislation against pushing ideology in K-12 schools, social media influencer “Berta Proud Dad” has launched a way for parents and students to report instances of activist teachers breaking the law.

Lawrence Magee, who runs the social media handle Berta Proud Dad, spoke with Juno News about an initiative he started in response to parents coming to him about teachers rebelling against the elected provincial government’s efforts to prevent ideological indoctrination in schools.

Magee was alerted by parents to an Alberta teacher, Peter Mackay, who was urging other teachers to sneak pride flags into schools by exploiting an apparent loophole in the government’s efforts to remove political flags from classrooms under Bill 25.

The bill, which received royal assent on May 14, 2026, aims to ensure instruction is balanced and neutral rather than presenting a teacher’s personal political or ideological views as fact.

Mackay shared a post on Instagram pointing out that the directive to schools on which flags were permitted to be displayed includes sports flags. He endorsed using an Edmonton Oilers Pride flag to circumvent the effective ban on Pride flags in the classroom.

Magee noted that the ban is to remove all political ideology from the classroom, including Palestine flags, antifa stickers, and anything else not connected to the province or nation’s history.

In response, Magee launched reportateacher.ca for parents to report any teachers “not following the rules that the government set out in Bill 25.

“They are going to be able to upload the images with the teacher’s name and school to this website, and I am going to go and hand it to the minister of education every week,” Magee told Juno News. “ I’m going to do follow-up with the Minister of Education as to what they’re doing about this, because they’re trying to circumvent the rules.”

He said his hope is that no teachers are reported using the website, as he ideally wants there to be no teachers pushing their ideology on children.

“It’s important for kids, especially, to go to school and learn, you know, arithmetic, mathematics, English, you know, the fundamentals of an education,” he said. “What we’ve seen over the years a rise in social activist teachers that have come out of universities, where we see activism is on the rise as well, and they’re trying to bring that into the classroom.”

He noted that many may view political stickers, flags, or articles of clothing that teachers may display as “non-threatening,” but that the prevalence of these symbols amounts to indoctrination.

“ It’s a slow drip over time, and we need our school systems to basically be a place of education and not indoctrination and brainwashing, which is exactly what’s been going on,” he said.

Magee said “not all teachers are bad” and that many conservative teachers have reached out to him thanking him for his advocacy as they feel that there’s not much they can do about their colleagues’ actions.

“There’s other conservative teachers who are afraid to speak out in meetings because you know it’s a very (entrenched) mentality amongst teachers that you must follow their ideology or else,” he said. “We’re giving those teachers a voice, but really giving parents a voice. They should actually know what’s going on in their kid’s school.”

He said the best way to ensure students receive the fairest education possible and to minimize “confusion” about “any kind of ideology” is to keep teachers’ political opinions out of the classroom.

“ I want to be clear. This is not about the pride flag. This is about all flags, all symbols, all ideologies, and just sticking to the basics of education,” Magee said. “I don’t want a single report to come to this website. I’m hoping that teachers go into the classroom, they do their job, they don’t try to circumvent the rules, and they actually follow what the government has put out there in Bill 25.”