TO The Legislative Assembly of Ontario: Whereas it has been recommended in the Drummond Report that all Demonstration Schools in Ontario be closed as part of the upcoming budget, we seek your opposition to this move. We, the undersigned, including Trillium, Sagonaska & Amethyst Demonstration School Parent Councils, on behalf of our students, parents and interested parties, petition the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as follows: a) to oppose this recommendation of Demonstration School closure becoming part of the upcoming budget (a strictly cost-cutting measure which does not take into account the resulting high costs at School Board level to provide same service types to severely Learning Disabled students). b) actively move to enable these valuable schools to remain in place to serve students who have exhausted all other available resources in order to access equal education for themselves without added cost, to which they, like all students, are entitled by the law of the land, by opposing the closure of Demonstration Schools c) actively move to enable the continuation of the added role of Demonstration Schools as front runner providers of direction for technology use in schools, literacy development and curriculum delivery, by opposing the closure of the Demonstration Schools