Support specialized programs & schools made possible by optional attendance!
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James
8 years ago
This sounds like a dumb idea and I think that people in these programs worked hard to get there, and they shouldn't be shut down on them.
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Sari friedman
8 years ago
This proposal actually does the OPPOSITE of equity. We are not robots. Everyone is born with different strengths and needs. This proposal removes the opportunity for so many children, but especially for the ones least fortunate, as they won't have the means for the extra enrichment or help they would have otherwise gotten In a specialized program more suited to their gifts.
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Anonymous
8 years ago
Keep these programs
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Aaron Liu
8 years ago
Don't phase out these programs.
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Emanuela
8 years ago
Eliminating specialized programs won’t address equity issues as they are open to all students equally.
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Ying Zhu
8 years ago
Against cancel specialty programs!
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Lucie Sparham
8 years ago
Please preserve our arts schools! They are are the future for Canadian culture and creativity. It would be a disastrous mistake to eliminate these creative hubs.
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Annie
8 years ago
We are strongly disagree the petition.
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Noah Ullmann
8 years ago
Fight to keep these school's open!!
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Anonymous
8 years ago
Etobicoke School of the Arts saved me growing up and made me the person I am today. Don't deny other children the same opportunities.
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Jalon
8 years ago
The TDSB shouldn’t be fazing out programs like what we have at ESA. If anything they should be investing more time and money in to it.
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Madeleine Kennedy
8 years ago
There are hundreds of students who only feel at home because of their specialized programs. All of us will be forced to attend schools that we were purposefully avoiding. This is ridiculous and will cause so many programs. It’s like shutting down IB in Toronto!
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Ina Ornstein
8 years ago
Having been a teacher for 20 years, it is absurd, truly absurd for the 'board' of elected 'non teachers' to believe that you can take one teacher, any teacher, and they can issue all learning needs from MID to gifted in one room. You are creating the worst of inequities, ensuring learning for NONE.
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Cristina Prinzo
8 years ago
Outrageous!
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April west
8 years ago
My best friend is in a specialty program in Toronto. She dosnt even live in Toronto, she lives right beside a school which she went to for 1 year but didn’t enjoy it. Now that she’s in a specialty program she loves it and I would hate to see her lose what she loves about school
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Dong Li
8 years ago
Do not phase out specialized programs. Give more opportunity to the students!
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Guang Li
8 years ago
Please keep this program, do NOT cancel.
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Anonymous
8 years ago
I'm in grade 7 at CH Best in the Cyber Arts program and for the first time in years, I'm excited to go to school. Please don't get rid of this program!
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Julie Tanzer Levy
8 years ago
I oppose this an an Educator and as a parent of children in the TDSB.
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Molly Read
8 years ago
Students are thriving in these programs. What kind of school board eliminates the opportunity for young people to find out who they are, and who they want to be? Shame.
This sounds like a dumb idea and I think that people in these programs worked hard to get there, and they shouldn't be shut down on them.
This proposal actually does the OPPOSITE of equity. We are not robots. Everyone is born with different strengths and needs. This proposal removes the opportunity for so many children, but especially for the ones least fortunate, as they won't have the means for the extra enrichment or help they would have otherwise gotten In a specialized program more suited to their gifts.
Keep these programs
Don't phase out these programs.
Eliminating specialized programs won’t address equity issues as they are open to all students equally.
Against cancel specialty programs!
Please preserve our arts schools! They are are the future for Canadian culture and creativity. It would be a disastrous mistake to eliminate these creative hubs.
We are strongly disagree the petition.
Fight to keep these school's open!!
Etobicoke School of the Arts saved me growing up and made me the person I am today. Don't deny other children the same opportunities.
The TDSB shouldn’t be fazing out programs like what we have at ESA. If anything they should be investing more time and money in to it.
There are hundreds of students who only feel at home because of their specialized programs. All of us will be forced to attend schools that we were purposefully avoiding. This is ridiculous and will cause so many programs. It’s like shutting down IB in Toronto!
Having been a teacher for 20 years, it is absurd, truly absurd for the 'board' of elected 'non teachers' to believe that you can take one teacher, any teacher, and they can issue all learning needs from MID to gifted in one room. You are creating the worst of inequities, ensuring learning for NONE.
Outrageous!
My best friend is in a specialty program in Toronto. She dosnt even live in Toronto, she lives right beside a school which she went to for 1 year but didn’t enjoy it. Now that she’s in a specialty program she loves it and I would hate to see her lose what she loves about school
Do not phase out specialized programs. Give more opportunity to the students!
Please keep this program, do NOT cancel.
I'm in grade 7 at CH Best in the Cyber Arts program and for the first time in years, I'm excited to go to school. Please don't get rid of this program!
I oppose this an an Educator and as a parent of children in the TDSB.
Students are thriving in these programs. What kind of school board eliminates the opportunity for young people to find out who they are, and who they want to be? Shame.