STOP the TDSB EETF: NO to De-streaming; NO to Cancelling Specialty Programs; NO to Cancelling Optional Attendance; NO to "reforming" Gifted Programs
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Mark Jamieson
8 years ago
The TDSB recommendations should be rejected as is and more time is required to gather broader feedback as well as identify more productive options for resolving any perceived issues.
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Shellie Suter
8 years ago
Special Education students need equity too. One size cannot fit all for these most-vulnerable students who need smaller classes, specialized instruction and more individualized teaching. De-streaming would erase their confidence and increase anxiety and stress - when trying to manage in a class of 30. Terrible idea TDSB. It was tried before and FAILED.
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Jill Hollingsworth
8 years ago
One size fits all education is just like a one size fits all T-shirt - it doesn't fit anyone. TDSB can and should do better than the EETF - this plan will leave more students behind than it will help.
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Akhtar Naqvi
8 years ago
I think this an excellent program, it provides the opportunity and challenge to the upcoming g talents. It will be a huge loss to the nation, and upcoming generation. Rather then cancellIng or reducing we should enhance it.
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Anonymous
8 years ago
STOP the TDSB EETF .
NO to De-streaming
NO to Cancelling Specialty Programs like Arts, TOPS, IB
NO to Cancelling Optional Attendance
NO to "reforming" Gifted Programs
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Shoshana Jamieson
8 years ago
The Congregated Gifted Program at Forest Hill has been the answer to both of my children being unchallenged and checking out at school. The regular stream cannot properly support children at both ends of the spectrum. Teacher's do not have the time, training and resources to be able to customize the class to all levels. Segregating students based on ability allows them to learn at a proper pace for them. These programs should be available to students.
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juan
8 years ago
My son is twice exceptional. After joining the congregated gifted class he flourished! Regular teachers are not trained to handle these kids. Five of them considered him "special" in the other way, when in fact he has an an IQ in the 99.98 percentile! He is understood amongst kids in similar situations and that think alike. It's a need not an entitlement! Please do not decongregate these programs!
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Tina Brunelle
8 years ago
My daughter has an OPR and according to this report she would not necessarily get the support she needs.
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Wilson Ramirez
8 years ago
To cancel a special program is simply to go backwards and makes absolutely no sense. If parents and professionals wanted or needed students to be in a regular program they would imply not enrol them in the gifted program. To cancel a program that is much needed for students with special talents is discriminatory for such students.
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Stephanie Reisler
8 years ago
There is next to nothing written in this EETF report about teaching and learning. Unacceptable. Plus the consultation process was well-hidden from the general public.
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Donna Bartliff
8 years ago
This smells like a report written to meet a conclusion already reached. Very Flawed.
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Vilma Barredo
8 years ago
I girls benefited for these programs and help them to be better for University. Please have this continue and the future kids will also benefit
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Alexandra Grishanova
8 years ago
I hated school when all the underperforming students dragged the entire class down and I had to spend days in my class unchallenged and bored out of my skull. My child is now enjoying school and is appropriately challenged in a gifted program. He hopes to get into a specialized program so that he can do even more of what he loves. Why make kids like him miserable. These students need attention just like underperforming students do.
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Nadine D'Aguiar
8 years ago
Rather than cancel or "reform" programs that have proven records of success in the name of enhancing equity, the TDSB would be much wiser to implement initiatives to ensure that successful programs are available to all, through for example increased community outreach programs. Please don't take away programs, such as the congregated gifted programs, that have been created over decades of effort and have been shown to benefit so many kids.
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David Edgson
8 years ago
These types of changes do our students more harm than good.
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Ken Gotlib
8 years ago
My daughter found her people and her voice once she entered the gifted stream. Without this program she would have never been able to thrive as she is today. Teaching to the lowest common denominator in the name of equity is short sighted and inefficient. I would find it hard to believe that any educator worth their salt could see this as a reasonable or effective solution to the concerns of inequity
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Ricky Englander
8 years ago
Leave the programs as they are. After years of fiddling the Board has it right.
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Anonymous
8 years ago
This is to STRONGLY OPPOSE the reforming of Gifted Programs, cancelling optional attendance and speciality programs and de-streaming.
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Sue Fisher
8 years ago
I am opposed to this initiative, have a child in Gifted at NSS who directly benefits from the program in a myriad of ways. Am also against de-streaming of special needs students
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Sebastien Kennedy Inamoto
8 years ago
I find the Gifted Program perfect and feel that my school life would suffer from reformation, de-streaming, and the canceling of optional attendance. In fact the removal of optional attendance caused my and my good friends to be split up.
The TDSB recommendations should be rejected as is and more time is required to gather broader feedback as well as identify more productive options for resolving any perceived issues.
Special Education students need equity too. One size cannot fit all for these most-vulnerable students who need smaller classes, specialized instruction and more individualized teaching. De-streaming would erase their confidence and increase anxiety and stress - when trying to manage in a class of 30. Terrible idea TDSB. It was tried before and FAILED.
One size fits all education is just like a one size fits all T-shirt - it doesn't fit anyone. TDSB can and should do better than the EETF - this plan will leave more students behind than it will help.
I think this an excellent program, it provides the opportunity and challenge to the upcoming g talents. It will be a huge loss to the nation, and upcoming generation. Rather then cancellIng or reducing we should enhance it.
STOP the TDSB EETF . NO to De-streaming NO to Cancelling Specialty Programs like Arts, TOPS, IB NO to Cancelling Optional Attendance NO to "reforming" Gifted Programs
The Congregated Gifted Program at Forest Hill has been the answer to both of my children being unchallenged and checking out at school. The regular stream cannot properly support children at both ends of the spectrum. Teacher's do not have the time, training and resources to be able to customize the class to all levels. Segregating students based on ability allows them to learn at a proper pace for them. These programs should be available to students.
My son is twice exceptional. After joining the congregated gifted class he flourished! Regular teachers are not trained to handle these kids. Five of them considered him "special" in the other way, when in fact he has an an IQ in the 99.98 percentile! He is understood amongst kids in similar situations and that think alike. It's a need not an entitlement! Please do not decongregate these programs!
My daughter has an OPR and according to this report she would not necessarily get the support she needs.
To cancel a special program is simply to go backwards and makes absolutely no sense. If parents and professionals wanted or needed students to be in a regular program they would imply not enrol them in the gifted program. To cancel a program that is much needed for students with special talents is discriminatory for such students.
There is next to nothing written in this EETF report about teaching and learning. Unacceptable. Plus the consultation process was well-hidden from the general public.
This smells like a report written to meet a conclusion already reached. Very Flawed.
I girls benefited for these programs and help them to be better for University. Please have this continue and the future kids will also benefit
I hated school when all the underperforming students dragged the entire class down and I had to spend days in my class unchallenged and bored out of my skull. My child is now enjoying school and is appropriately challenged in a gifted program. He hopes to get into a specialized program so that he can do even more of what he loves. Why make kids like him miserable. These students need attention just like underperforming students do.
Rather than cancel or "reform" programs that have proven records of success in the name of enhancing equity, the TDSB would be much wiser to implement initiatives to ensure that successful programs are available to all, through for example increased community outreach programs. Please don't take away programs, such as the congregated gifted programs, that have been created over decades of effort and have been shown to benefit so many kids.
These types of changes do our students more harm than good.
My daughter found her people and her voice once she entered the gifted stream. Without this program she would have never been able to thrive as she is today. Teaching to the lowest common denominator in the name of equity is short sighted and inefficient. I would find it hard to believe that any educator worth their salt could see this as a reasonable or effective solution to the concerns of inequity
Leave the programs as they are. After years of fiddling the Board has it right.
This is to STRONGLY OPPOSE the reforming of Gifted Programs, cancelling optional attendance and speciality programs and de-streaming.
I am opposed to this initiative, have a child in Gifted at NSS who directly benefits from the program in a myriad of ways. Am also against de-streaming of special needs students
I find the Gifted Program perfect and feel that my school life would suffer from reformation, de-streaming, and the canceling of optional attendance. In fact the removal of optional attendance caused my and my good friends to be split up.