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Grades 7 & 8 students being moved into the High School to Help in Declining Enrollment.
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Kawartha Pine Ridge has had 7-12 years for quite a few years. It can and does work qutie well.
I don't presume to speak to your board's particular needs but I do know that the 7-12 model works. Steps are taken at the school to allow for the 7/8's t…
Having participated in the review, it was a bit of a railroad process with a preconcieved outcome on the part of the UCSDB.
The process (ARC) was exhaustive but the majority of the recommendations were discarded. The process was quite long and draw…
We are presently going thru the Accommodation review, we have felt from the very beginning that the School Board wants to solve the declining enrollment In the Elementary and Secondary schools, by taking the grades 7 and 8 out of the elementary scho…
We took a look at Middle Schools in our Annual Report. Here's what it says:
Though grades 7 and 8 are formally a part of the elementary school curriculum, and their teachers are in elementary sections of teachers’ federations, these grades are consi…
Meanwhile in other parts of the province I hear that Senior Public schools are closing and their 7 & 8 kids are going to the elementary not secondary school.
Just goes to show that different regions are doing different things, and hopefully whateve…
In our area, one of the contributing factors to the move to 7 to 12 grade structuring was the fact that the local Catholic board used it almost exclusively in all their secondary schools. They did have the advantage of more new schools and as each w…
Christine - one way to determine just how willing your board is re: considering the suggestions/recommendations of the ARC and community re: school consolidation or changes is to look for the boards 10 year Capital Plan(which is something the gov't…
Thanks for your reply, I was able to read some of the news articles that the teachers put out with regard to Boundry 2020, I can relate to what was said.
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Jacqui Strachan said… - Hi Christine, and welcome to our online community. I am the parent inclusion coordinator here at People for Education, and also a school council chair at my son's high school. I know how demanding, but also how rewarding it can be, and I keep telling myself that my recalcitrant teenager is worth it! :-) He seems to have accepted the fact that I am going to be involved, and even smiled at me when he saw me in the school the other day, so things are looking up, tee hee. I look forward to having you in the online neighbourhood. What part of Ontario is Belgrave in? It is great to see so many different areas represented within the community.
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