Support specialized programs & schools made possible by optional attendance!

Specialized program is needed for kids with various talent just as programs are needed for autism kids

One size fits all is going backwards. Please keep specialized programs like Claude Watson School for the Arts as is. Torontonian can afford it.

support specialized programm which promote higher competition and higher acdemic level. Give different student a chance to fully develop their potencial.

This type of learning must grow momentum, NOT CLOSE DOWN. Ideally this type of learning should be offered to a greater amount of student all over Canada. The benefit we received for our daughter and peers attending Claude Watson was priceless. Imagine gathering statistics and measurables of the success of programs like Claude Watson an Arts Enriched Program. We would be failing our city and country with these closures. Let’s reframe our thinking towards ‘innovative’ learning.

You suck.

Yeah, go for it

Bring flag football back to blessed cardinal Newman

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It doesn't make any sense to do something like this.

Being a student in the MaCs program at William Lyon Mackenzie CI means that I worked hard to enable me to attend this specialized program. Only pure hard work and dedication let me be accepted, and if the TDSB was to take my hard work away, I wouldn't hesitate to give them a piece of my mind. I don't think that any of the other students in a situation like mine will agree with the demolition of specialized programs, why TDSB?

No to banning of gifted program

Should not take away existing service before new replacement service is in place.

disagree with the recommendation of phasing out the optional attendence. stopping cutting the top

i am a gifted student and i believe these programs are very beneficial to many students

This report is well intentioned but poorly executed. An Independant consultant with no educational background talking to a tiny sample of homogenous students does not result in a plan for equality or equity. We’re a developed nation and an advanced city. One size fits all is going backwards. You should better communicate programs to all students instead of killing programs like STem or gifted. Iw

My kids have been in the congregated gifted program for a combined 7 years. Before finally being allowed to enter the gifted program in gr 3, my son was growing frustrated and demotivated in French Immersion, where his marks were excellent. An otherwise happy student, his zest for learning was getting crushed after being made to endlessly tutor his (upsplit and downsplit) classmates for 3 years while he hoped and waited for class work to catch up to his knowledge and ability. Of course it couldn’t, as he was still progressing by reading and learning everything we could offer him. My daughter was just cruising along getting only A's and B's. She did everything she was asked to do in class, but the work wasn’t engaging to her. Socializing and making crafts were more novel to her than the slow and repetitive material class work. Now in the congregated gifted program, their classmates are of more similar ability and interests and class work moves along at a pace that keeps them engaged. My son is excited by the curriculum again and my daughter’s marks have soared as she’s interested by her lessons and projects. Even their playdates with classmates have leapt to a higher ability. The congregated gifted program isn’t perfect, but for us, it’s much better than regular stream French Immersion. With high school upon us, we’re looking at specialty math and science programs to continue providing engaging our kids during their most critical learning years. With the guidance of gifted and specialty programs, some of these students will become our innovators, entrepreneurs and leaders of tomorrow. Without them, some could wither, develop problems and become a negative to society. An unfulfilled potential in the gifted population is as sad and wasteful as in other demographic groups.

Please STOP the CONGREGATED gifted program. They have the right to an education that will help them learn & grow,

keep specialty programs as is

disagreen with stopping art school program and phasing out optional attendence.

I support the special educational program.