Toronto’s mostly union-backed school trustees have proven yet again they are nothing more than a cowardly bunch of leftist wingnuts.

Based on their ridiculous pandering to professional agitator Desmond Cole, Black Lives Matter (BLM) and political correctness, I would say they certainly don’t have the interests of their students in mind and would add that we can’t trust them in the slightest to make a fair assessment of an excellent School Resource Officer (SRO) program.

As I learned Thursday - the day after Toronto’s school trustees voted 16-6 to suspend the program in their schools until November - the Toronto school board is conducting its own three-month review quite separate from that being done by the Toronto police services board and Ryerson University.

According to the board’s motion, no doubt penned with the approval of the board’s Black Student Achievement Advisory Committee, the presence of SROs could be “intimidating for the most marginalized students” during the review.

In other words, the poor dears (at least according to the mostly leftist trustees) need a safe space where they’d feel comfortable expressing their views.

Board chairman Robin Pilkey, defending the suspension of the SRO program pending a duplicate review, said trustees felt SROs in the schools this fall would be a “barrier” to people speaking freely.

To ensure that the settings where the students and others will speak are truly “inclusive and welcoming,” she said community meetings will be held in non-TDSB settings.

“It’s important that we hear from everybody ... not just the people yelling,” she said. “It’s a controversial program and we want to make sure when we do make a decision in November we’ve heard from everybody we can.”

Note to Pilkey: It’s only controversial because the BLM agitators in search of cause have made it so, having moved on from banning the police from the Pride parade.

I guess neither Pilkey nor her fellow trustees spent eight hours as I did at the June 15 police services board listening to dozens of Toronto school board principals, teachers and students - yes students AND teachers, many of them black - sing the praises of a program that has made a positive difference in the lives of so many.

They did this while being repeatedly, loudly and rudely heckled by Cole and his ragtag group of like-minded professional agitators - not exactly a “safe space.”

Asked whether she monitored the dozens of TDSB principals, teachers and students who spoke at the June 15 TPSB meeting - and which occurred precisely six days before the board decided to conduct its own review - Pilkey said: “I’m not familiar with any of that ... I don’t know of anyone who came to speak.”

Okay then.

Some days I feel like I’m operating in a parallel universe. I shudder to think that people like Pilkey and Co. are running the Toronto school board.

To its credit, the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) has confirmed the SRO program will continue in their schools come next week.

TCDSB spokesman John Yan said it was “status quo” - no change - for this worthwhile program, despite what is happening at the TDSB.

For his part, Cole has adopted a practice of not speaking to me or the Toronto Sun - even when I sat beside him at the June 15 TPSB meeting - and he has blocked me on Twitter. However he did tell the John Oakley show Thursday - just before my segment - that the SRO program has “done a lot of harm,” that it “doesn’t belong in this city” and that one can “always find some black people who support it.”

Pilkey insisted they are not pandering to BLM and repeated the mantra that they’re concerned that they “hear from everybody.”

I say otherwise.

This ridiculous exercise by the leftist nuts on the TDSB is just about finding a way to give BLM and Cole exactly what they want.

I pity the school board’s students.

Political correctness has come before their best interests.

SLevy@postmedia.com