Toronto Africentric school “within a school?”
Posted by Sandy on 28th April 2008
According to the Saturday edition of the Toronto Star, Louise Brown says that the Toronto District School Board is proposing to put “Canada’s first Africentric alternative school within a school — not a free-standing building — for a wing of sprawling Sheppard Public School near the northwest corner of Sheppard Avenue West and Keele Street” in Toronto.
Scheduled to open in September 2009 for children in Grades JK to 5, area trustee James Pasternak said the new school would bolster falling enrollment at Sheppard and add a vibrant program that would NOT be separate from all the other students attending Sheppard.
“There’s this misconception of two solitudes running down the halls, but that’s incorrect — these kids (in the regular school and the Africentric wing) would be together in the schoolyard, together in the playground, together in the lunchroom,” said Pasternak.
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