Hi John: Nothing has been resolved. The OCT continues to break their own policies and continues to fail to protect kids and the profession. On June 17 2008 a convicted sex offender admitted to having had sex five times with kids during a dicipline hearing where he was called as a witness. He admitted to having sex five times with kids but also admitted that he claimed only one "legal" issue during his closed door reinstatement hearing. Two College Lawyers were present and three members of the College Council were there too. The College continues to fail to protect children from this person who has done so much wrong to the profession and destroyed young kids. Reading what happened to the Irish Residential School in the news today, breaks my heart. ....All the best.... Jim
Sorry it's taken me so long to respond! For me the policy degree isn't so much about working in the policy field (my eventual aspirations lie in the practice of intellectual property law) but more about getting an understanding, both theoretical and practical, of how what we are told is 'the law' is developed and implemented. It's a fascinating preamble to a law degree, and one which I think will give me a rather unique perspective on the practice.
And indeed, leaning leftwards is the way I like to be!
At 1:42pm on February 20, 2009, Sonja Friesl said…
More about the programme: A Masters of Public Policy at U of T equips students with the theoretical and practical knowledge to tackle policy issues. For example the first-year core curriculum includes quantitiative methods (statistics), micro/macro economics and courses focused on different aspects of understanding the policy-making process, like implementation and the social context of policy-making.
Our school is small, at 281 elementary students. It is Early French Immersion, which is not uncommon in Ottawa. I believe there are enough elementary-aged children within walking distance to fill the school twice. However, with the public/catholic s…
Briony before rushing to ideas I always like to take a deep breath and outline the goal and then priority for Parent Engagement/Involvement. Without that you will just try different things but perhaps achieve few results. Our PIC believes in giving…
Hi Briony,
There are also some great examples of what other people have done in our Parent Engagement Manual.
Hopefully you'll get lots of responses from parents here in our online community who have tried a bunch of different things.
It's also i…
Hi Briony,
It is always hard to know how to start from zero when it comes to parent involvement. When I went to my first high school council meeting, the staff outnumbered the parents! There were only two of us, and the other mum showed up because h…
Thank you for sharing these photos and this project with us. It is wonderful to see those beautiful children learning together in a community school. Congratulations to the organizers of this initiative. To be able to offer this opportunity to 300 s…
I am the PIAC rep for Ward 10 of the TDSB.
PIAC is trying to offer more concentrated and targeted School council and parent engagement support this year and to that end we sent out a questionnaire asking schools what the state of things are at prese…
Beth: About the article in the Globe... unfortunately links to that newspaper only work for about 7 days, and then you must pay for the articles :( It's different from the Star which allows you to view them for free as long as you have the link addr…
Great article, Deborah (Playing the Game). I skimmed through and will read it again. Thanks! Looks like some good insight and food for thought from down under......!
Your link worked - yay Deb! It looks really good - I will read it this weekend :)
The next newsletter writing deadline is March 1st, which seems to work well with your research deadlines. All the best with your next steps in January!
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Sorry it's taken me so long to respond! For me the policy degree isn't so much about working in the policy field (my eventual aspirations lie in the practice of intellectual property law) but more about getting an understanding, both theoretical and practical, of how what we are told is 'the law' is developed and implemented. It's a fascinating preamble to a law degree, and one which I think will give me a rather unique perspective on the practice.
And indeed, leaning leftwards is the way I like to be!
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