Jackie Short
Appearances
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E7: Club no one wanted to join | The Banned Teacher
And everybody mishandled it again and again and again and again.
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E7: Club no one wanted to join | The Banned Teacher
But you were so articulate. Like, you told... I don't know, it just captured me. Me too. It's so how we all feel.
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E7: Club no one wanted to join | The Banned Teacher
We're out here gesticulating with massive big fists.
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E7: Club no one wanted to join | The Banned Teacher
And how it is so clear how wronged you were, I guess.
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E7: Club no one wanted to join | The Banned Teacher
Not just by him, but then specifically re-traumatized by the system. And that's terrible. For sure.
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E7: Club no one wanted to join | The Banned Teacher
We've told our secrets, and it's not our secret anymore. It's his shame.
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E7: Club no one wanted to join | The Banned Teacher
It's his shame, yeah. That's what stuck with me.
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E7: Club no one wanted to join | The Banned Teacher
These ladies all reported him. But he kept teaching.
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E7: Club no one wanted to join | The Banned Teacher
I didn't report him until 20 years later.
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E7: Club no one wanted to join | The Banned Teacher
But you got him fired. You got him fired. It's crazy that they didn't really do anything. He left Markham. That's not a solution to anything.
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E7: Club no one wanted to join | The Banned Teacher
Yeah. There's the whole point of child protection. That should have been their objective.
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E7: Club no one wanted to join | The Banned Teacher
And it had nothing to do with that.
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E7: Club no one wanted to join | The Banned Teacher
It says that they couldn't do anything because they had no record. of any complaints against Walker. Right.
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E7: Club no one wanted to join | The Banned Teacher
And he was there when I was in grade 12.
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E7: Club no one wanted to join | The Banned Teacher
Right. Now, that is outrageous. Like, absolutely outrageous. Because we know there's two people sitting in this room who made complaints about him. And we know a superintendent was in the room with one of you. And not having records is not an excuse. They just had to talk to people who were around at the time then.
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E7: Club no one wanted to join | The Banned Teacher
What bothers me is I don't understand why school administrators in 1987 didn't understand the law. Society had evolved to a point where the whole point was to make that clear and to prevent it. And how could people responsible for children not know that?
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E7: Club no one wanted to join | The Banned Teacher
Have you seen these pictures, June? No, I'm going to.
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E7: Club no one wanted to join | The Banned Teacher
What's your first clue?
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E7: Club no one wanted to join | The Banned Teacher
I wasn't sure if this mystery guest would make it tonight.
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E7: Club no one wanted to join | The Banned Teacher
I'm just smiling at you because you're so brave. I'm just looking at you. I'm looking at you going, look at you walking right into this group of girls. You know? You don't know. Yeah. Like, you are so brave.
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E7: Club no one wanted to join | The Banned Teacher
I was in love with his life, and he was going to marry me. Oh, me too. Me too. And I was 13 or 14 actually believing that. Yeah, well, our stories are a lot alike. We had longer-term, I'm not going to call them relationships, but longer-term experiences. Longer sentences.
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E7: Club no one wanted to join | The Banned Teacher
That's a good way to put it.
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E7: Club no one wanted to join | The Banned Teacher
Then Ann Marie at Eastern Commerce.
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E7: Club no one wanted to join | The Banned Teacher
And he told me this story about how he was punched in the face. by a father of a student at Markham. And until we found you, that's... Oh, poor credit, sorry.
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E7: Club no one wanted to join | The Banned Teacher
Yeah, it's been with me my whole life. I wasn't sure what to do, and that was his process of trying to suck me in, and I started to feel sorry for him, which was a way that he operated with a lot of us, was... making us feel sorry for him.
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E7: Club no one wanted to join | The Banned Teacher
And for me to find out that that story was actually true was just so amazing. He used it, in my case, to groom me.
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E7: Club no one wanted to join | The Banned Teacher
There's just no way. And it's not about the punch. And we don't even know him.
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E7: Club no one wanted to join | The Banned Teacher
There's now a whole group of us who were abused by this man. And you are the only adult in our story who did something about it.
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E7: Club no one wanted to join | The Banned Teacher
And the police wouldn't contact me. No, the police refused to contact you. And I kept asking them repeatedly.
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E7: Club no one wanted to join | The Banned Teacher
Why would they not see if I wanted to be part of it?
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E7: Club no one wanted to join | The Banned Teacher
Technically, I kept saying, well, you know, victims don't like to have this all drenched up. And I said, well, you can ask them, and they'll tell you whether or not. Yes, yes. Now, he didn't have your name either, but I talked to also the Crown attorney, and they said they could get your name if they put out a subpoena. The Crown was interested, but the cops wouldn't do it.
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E7: Club no one wanted to join | The Banned Teacher
So the police let you down by not finding me. They let me down by not putting out a notice looking for other victims. Because I kept saying, let the victims choose. It was only Julie's work, the article that got many people came forward. So we know they wanted to come forward. And that is without having the methods that the police have. They have access to information.
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E7: Club no one wanted to join | The Banned Teacher
They can compel people to talk. We've done all this through informal meetings. connections.
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E7: Club no one wanted to join | The Banned Teacher
Jackie's Facebook power.
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E7: Club no one wanted to join | The Banned Teacher
It's been black humor all day.
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E8: The punch | The Banned Teacher
But it was such an important moment in my life and still resonates with me 40 years later. I remember almost the air about it, like the sun and the whiteness of the boat and the hemming and hawing of Mr. Christie and him saying things like, well, hmm. Well, you don't say. But being very noncommittal about it. 40 years ago, he would have been 53, so he would have been younger than I am now.
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E8: The punch | The Banned Teacher
I really doubt that at that time he wouldn't have known what I was talking about. Now, mind you, has time passed and he's forgotten? Or does he just not want to get in trouble?
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E8: The punch | The Banned Teacher
And I told him, I said, I know that Doug Walker has been carrying on with students.
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E8: The punch | The Banned Teacher
I told him about Rita. I mentioned other girls that I thought. I told him that he had propositioned me a couple of times. I just spilled it. I said that he always was buying drinks for all the students.
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E8: The punch | The Banned Teacher
I did tell him all this because it did happen.
Sea of Lies from Uncover
S31 E8: The punch | The Banned Teacher
No, I remember going to the front of that boat and he was standing there. And I remember telling him that Walker would buy alcohol, that he had been sleeping with a former student. So the first student I mentioned to him was Rita. You know, I have to say, I'm not sure if I mentioned Jeannie by name because we were still in school together and I probably didn't want to get her in trouble.