Jackie Short kept detailed diaries as a teen. She knew the teacher was making sexual advances to multiple students. At the same time, he was courting another teacher who would become his wife. On a band trip to Germany, Short told an administrator what was going on at their high school.
Chapter 1: What were Jackie Short's experiences in high school?
And then, luckily, I wrote a lot about the culture of the band and what was happening and how Walker would take us out for dinner and buy us all drinks. And we were 15, 16, 17.
She has sent me pages and pages. And at first glance, it's cute.
And then I included a lot of these details about Walker.
Then it's disturbing. March 14th, 1980. Before the concerts, Walker called me over. This is an entry from a band trip to the UK. She was 16. He explained that he was going to a country club tomorrow night with his billet, free drinks, food, etc., but he needs a date. So he asked me if I wanted to accompany him, and I said sure. I just thought, well, he likes me better than anyone else.
What a guy! But Jackie decided not to go with him after all. We'll hear more about that in a bit. Instead, he took another girl, Rita. Jackie had noticed something was going on with her even before the trip.
So I noticed personally that there was some sort of close relationship between them and that they would leave or come back together at lunchtime. and seemed to be inebriated. And he sort of smelled of alcohol. But you're in grade 10, beginning of 11. But yeah, it was very noticeable that he was with Rita. And I saw him kissing Rita when we were on our band trip to England.
March 14th, still 1980. It seems that for the past few nights, Walker has given Rita a kiss on the lips goodnight. I'm getting scared for her. We hope there's nothing going on between Walker and Rita, although we're sure there is. There was.
Sat down, put his arm around me, and then he said to me, I don't care what anybody thinks. My name is Rita. I was in grade 12 then, so I would have been 17.
Rita was a year older and a year ahead of Jeannie and Jackie at Markham District High School.
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Chapter 2: How did Jackie document her experiences with Mr. Walker?
Were you able to find out eventually why, like who was the catalyst who got Walker out of Markham? Maybe someone will come forward when all this hits the fan.
Maybe, maybe we'll get answers. Why did he leave Markham High five years after Jackie Short blew the whistle? And why did he move schools four more times after that? Jeannie McKay has other concerns.
The fact that administration knew, out and out knew, anyone after me, Markham High School was a failure at protecting kids. The York School Board, a failure at protecting kids. Yeah, so anyone that comes after me, it's so sad.
But Jeannie's never been prouder of her bestie. Jackie did the right thing when she was just a teen.
Jackie had the guts. She's always been this really amazing, ballsy lady, smart woman. And she knew that it was tearing friendships apart and she knew it was wrong.
In the spring of 2022, I reached out to Doug Walker himself. I was about to produce an investigative series for CBC. My stories focused on what happened to Anne-Marie Robinson and Jeannie McKay in high school. They hoped going public with me would prompt others to come forward. Walker responded to my inquiry.
I get Anne-Marie and Jeannie on a video call and I fill them in about what their former teacher said.
OK, so as you know, I got in touch with him first to see if he would talk to me. And then he said that he thought about it. He did some soul searching and he decided he wouldn't do an interview because he's been through enough already.
Really? He he's still avoiding responsibility. Yeah.
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