Support specialized programs & schools made possible by optional attendance!
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Dylan
8 years ago
This is so dumb
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Anonymous
8 years ago
Specialized programs make equity for students who really needs challanges. My son almost given up public schools because he says no need to goto school. nothing new he is studying n not challanging for him. he didn't want to study n he says nothing to study. i want some challane works. but once he got selected to a specialized program, he really enjoyed n that program was very helpful his studies now in unicersity. It should be fair students who capable to take challange n let them do. if tdsb going to stop because of equity, it is unfair for those capable students.
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Feng Yang
8 years ago
Those programs have been existed for many years and have been proved very successfully. Ignoring kids with different talent and treating them all "equally" is not right way to go.
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Mackenzie
8 years ago
WHY WOULD YOU RUIN ALL THESE CHILDRENS LIVES AND MAKE THEM LOSE ALL THE FRIENDS THEY HAVE AND FORCE THEM BACK TO THEIR OLD SCHOOL
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Matt Tyler
8 years ago
I think it's unnecessary for the tdsb to terminate all the specialized programs. Many gifted kidsin subjects, might not even be able to go to the school they want to.
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Brianna Hobbs
8 years ago
If I went to my homeschool I would probably be dead by now
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Bridget Raymundo
8 years ago
Arts schools provide a voice for students and challenge their specific way of learning. Don't generalize/streamline the way people learn.
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Rebecca Solomon
8 years ago
I go to wexford collegiate school for the arts and playing saxophone is my life. I would rather move to a foreign country then go back to my homeschool. Going back would ruin me
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Michaela Evans
8 years ago
Attending ESA changed my life!
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Mark Hopkins
8 years ago
Special ed programs that connect students to teachers who can fuel an otherwise unexpressed and unknown talent and passion are essential to sustaining diversity and excellence.
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Vienna
8 years ago
Stop taking away the damn schools u bibs
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Jackie Locke-Caceres
8 years ago
Attended ESA from 1996-2001
Can't say enough about how this school shaped my life and provides a safe.space for Arts students, not to mention the teachers.
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Rosanne Pattison
8 years ago
Rather than dismantling highly successful specialized school programs, the TDSB should be INCREASING the number of specialized schools so that even more students can benefit. Cutting arts programs is always a terrible idea. The future depends on nurturing artistic and creative minds !
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Ruben Huizenga
8 years ago
Don't ruin a good thing. I am a reluctant convert to specialized ed.. it works.
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Anonymous
8 years ago
Without specialized programs, school is meaningless. It gives us identity through education.
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Maja Lambeck
8 years ago
Shutting down these programs is a ridiculous idea. They mean so much to so many people and just the idea of considering taking them down is ridiculous
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Suzanne Doane
8 years ago
Arts programs like these that work need to be protected, funded, and advocated for. They provide so much for so many students - don't try to re-invent the wheel. Support this wheel, and seek to create more, don't dismantle.
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Monika
8 years ago
Closing down all specialized programs in the name of equity is NOT FAIR to all students who need them. TDSB is trying to get one size fits all students and wonders why it does not work.
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Hayley Nathan Matus
8 years ago
this would be a huge injustice to families across the board.
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Olga Khasimkhanov
8 years ago
It reminds me of this well knows visual for Fair vs Equal:
http://jewishspecialneeds.blogspot.ca/2013/07/fair-isnt-equal.html
It sounds to me that TDSB is focusing on making everyone equal, while our kids (as well as we all) are different and they need different options and opportunities to strive and develop to their potential.
Removing specialized programs will deprive our kids of choice and will put even more unus on parent to support their kids individual needs outside of the school system. As a result, the kids from poorer families will be deprived of opportunities outside of the standard school program.
I would much rather see public money spent on learning from the successful programs and applying it across the board.
This is so dumb
Specialized programs make equity for students who really needs challanges. My son almost given up public schools because he says no need to goto school. nothing new he is studying n not challanging for him. he didn't want to study n he says nothing to study. i want some challane works. but once he got selected to a specialized program, he really enjoyed n that program was very helpful his studies now in unicersity. It should be fair students who capable to take challange n let them do. if tdsb going to stop because of equity, it is unfair for those capable students.
Those programs have been existed for many years and have been proved very successfully. Ignoring kids with different talent and treating them all "equally" is not right way to go.
WHY WOULD YOU RUIN ALL THESE CHILDRENS LIVES AND MAKE THEM LOSE ALL THE FRIENDS THEY HAVE AND FORCE THEM BACK TO THEIR OLD SCHOOL
I think it's unnecessary for the tdsb to terminate all the specialized programs. Many gifted kidsin subjects, might not even be able to go to the school they want to.
If I went to my homeschool I would probably be dead by now
Arts schools provide a voice for students and challenge their specific way of learning. Don't generalize/streamline the way people learn.
I go to wexford collegiate school for the arts and playing saxophone is my life. I would rather move to a foreign country then go back to my homeschool. Going back would ruin me
Attending ESA changed my life!
Special ed programs that connect students to teachers who can fuel an otherwise unexpressed and unknown talent and passion are essential to sustaining diversity and excellence.
Stop taking away the damn schools u bibs
Attended ESA from 1996-2001 Can't say enough about how this school shaped my life and provides a safe.space for Arts students, not to mention the teachers.
Rather than dismantling highly successful specialized school programs, the TDSB should be INCREASING the number of specialized schools so that even more students can benefit. Cutting arts programs is always a terrible idea. The future depends on nurturing artistic and creative minds !
Don't ruin a good thing. I am a reluctant convert to specialized ed.. it works.
Without specialized programs, school is meaningless. It gives us identity through education.
Shutting down these programs is a ridiculous idea. They mean so much to so many people and just the idea of considering taking them down is ridiculous
Arts programs like these that work need to be protected, funded, and advocated for. They provide so much for so many students - don't try to re-invent the wheel. Support this wheel, and seek to create more, don't dismantle.
Closing down all specialized programs in the name of equity is NOT FAIR to all students who need them. TDSB is trying to get one size fits all students and wonders why it does not work.
this would be a huge injustice to families across the board.
It reminds me of this well knows visual for Fair vs Equal: http://jewishspecialneeds.blogspot.ca/2013/07/fair-isnt-equal.html It sounds to me that TDSB is focusing on making everyone equal, while our kids (as well as we all) are different and they need different options and opportunities to strive and develop to their potential. Removing specialized programs will deprive our kids of choice and will put even more unus on parent to support their kids individual needs outside of the school system. As a result, the kids from poorer families will be deprived of opportunities outside of the standard school program. I would much rather see public money spent on learning from the successful programs and applying it across the board.