Apartheid High may have to resort to using portables
Despite all the spittle of fury and rage from Canadian conservative bloggers who preached gloom and doom for the Toronto District School Board opening on a black-focused school it appears the enrollment rate has exceeded the demand and has resulted in….waiting lists and the possible need for portables for next year. I thought I would high light the school so many other Canadian bloggers won’t post. The Toronto Star
Just months after scrambling to find its first 40 students, Toronto’s Africentric alternative school has become so popular it has had to close its doors at about 130 pupils, start a waiting list for 25 more and begin grappling with where to put the new grade it plans to add next year. Since Labour Day it has hired two more teachers, both of them men.
Now Canada’s most controversial school may need to consider portables. “That’s a problem people will welcome, considering not that long ago they were wondering if the school would even open,” said Ainsworth Morgan, father of two sons at the school and a daughter in the school child care centre.”I never really doubted enrolment would grow once the community saw the school was up and running,” said Morgan, a teacher who was on the committee advising the Toronto District School Board about the project. The surge in new students, largely from junior kindergarten to Grade 2, has made the school one of the largest among Toronto’s 42 alternative schools, which have a combined enrolment of about 3,700, said trustee James Pasternak. “And the small size is part of the appeal of an alternative school,” said Pasternak, who called portables “a last resort.”
In the Lives of Others I wrote –
what would you call an educational institution which has produced 2 Rhodes Scholars, a Truman Scholar, a Marshall Scholar, 19 Fulbright Scholars, 10 Pickering Fellows, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and a US Supreme Court Justice? Wait! I know. A rather large number of Canadians would call it Apartheid U but I would call it Howard University and I would be proud to see my daughter graduate from such an institution.
Did I also mention “the program is open to children of all backgrounds” in the city of Toronto?
