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14-year-old heading to McMaster University in fall
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News / GTA
14-year-old heading to McMaster University in fall
Mississauga’s Alexandre D’Souza, not long arrived from India, double biological- and chemicalengineering degree.
BETSY POWELL / TORONTO STAR
14 year old Alexandre D'Souza is going to McMaster University in the fall.
By:Betsy PowellCity Courts reporter,Patty Winsa Staff Reporters Published on Tue Jun 04 2013
Alexandre D’Souza, like other high school students across the GTA, is gearing up for his prom and
graduation ceremony and spending the summer excited about embarking on his post-secondary
education.
But unlike most who are university-bound, D’Souza will be just 14 when he starts a double
biological- and chemical-engineering degree this fall at McMaster University in Hamilton.
The school’s admissions department does not collect information of its first-year entrants by age
so it is unable to say whether D’Souza is the youngest student ever admitted to the university.
However, Art Heidebrecht, McMaster’s acting dean of engineering, says he can’t recall an
admission of someone that young in the nearly 50 years he’s been at the school.
“It's very rare,” Heidebrecht told the Star. The engineering program typically receives more than
3,000 applicants. “The fact that he knows which program he wants to go into, he’s obviously very
motivated . . . I doubt he’ll have any difficulty.”
D’Souza — tall, polite and friendly — shrugs off his youthfulness and plays down his academic
record.
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“I don’t really like being judged by people by my age,” he says Monday evening sitting in the living
room of his family’s Mississauga home. “I’ve always been younger and had no problem socially.”
McMaster was his first choice and he was thrilled to accept the offer when it came in February.
Proud father Alfredo explains the family moved to Canada from India last year. Daughters
Annalise, 23, Alexia, 21, are also high academic achievers pursuing post graduate and a double
math/business degree respectively.
Their little brother “was always a star student,” says Alfredo, who works in business development.
Prior to coming to Canada, D’Souza studied in Bahrain, Singapore and Mumbai, India, where he
completed Grade 10 with distinction in all subjects.
When he was nine-year-old schoolboy in Bahrain, D’Souza scored the highest marks worldwide in
English and mathematics in an international exam.
D’Souza’s mother, Neomi, recalls her infant son sitting in front of the computer in diapers.
“We just couldn’t get him off it,” she says. He spent hours “self-learning,” using online education
programs and playing Battle Chess, a videogame version of chess. “He soaked in the information.”
Before starting school — which he did before his third birthday — D’Souza taught himself Arabic
numbers walking around a complex in Singapore with a housemaid “just by looking at English.”
He piled up academic awards and stellar report cards, now bound together in a large blue binder.
Last year, D’Souza amassed seven A-pluses and two As, the latter in chemistry and economics, “a
subject I’d never done before,” the teenager notes almost ruefully.
But this prodigy also makes time for fun, when he’s not tutoring math to other students at St.
Marcellinus Secondary School. He loves playing soccer, video games and piano.
Ideally, he would live at home rather than in residence — both for financial reasons and because of
his age — but the family is confident he’ll be in a safe and secure environment after meeting with
McMaster housing officials. “They suggested a smaller, quieter residence,” says his dad.
Heidebrecht says there will be many challenges for a student this young.
“The individual — being not only bright and already coping with high school — has obviously faced
some challenges in social relationships and so forth. I’m sure he’s quite capable of handling
himself. However, we pay a lot of attention to students who come in unusual situations.”
D’Souza is not sure what he intends to do after he graduates — which could be when he is 18,
typically the age students start post-secondary education in Ontario. “Maybe medical research, I’m
not 100 per cent sure,” he says.
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Not all kindergarten kids will meet Grade 3 standards, says EQAO study
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TORONTO — A new study suggests up to third of Ontario’s kindergarten
students may fail to meet provincial standards in reading, writing and math by
Grade 3.
The study by the Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) looked at the early progress of over 72,000 Englishlanguage students in the province.
It says 29 per cent of students were deemed by their teachers to be "vulnerable" or "at risk" in their language and cognitive
development.
Those students were much less likely to meet the standards by the end of Grade 3 than those deemed "ready" or "very
ready."
When it comes to reading, only 30 per cent of Grade 3 students rated by their kindergarten teachers as "vulnerable" met the
standard for reading in Grade 3.
Forty-nine per cent of those rated "at risk" met the reading standard in Grade 3.
By comparison, 68 per cent of students rated "ready" and 82 per cent rated "very ready" in kindergarten met the provincial
reading standard in Grade 3.
The study says the findings illustrate how significant early development is on student learning.
"Overall, Ontario's school system is doing well at bringing most students up to the expected standards for literacy and math
after just a few years of schooling,‘‘ said EQAO executive officer Marguerite Jackson.
"This research shows us that indicators of early childhood development are an important piece of information that both
parents and educators should pay attention to as they work together to support the progress of each child."
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14-year-old St. Marcellinus Secondary School student Alexandre D'Souza heading off to ... Page 1 of 1
MISSISSAUGA — St. Marcellinus Secondary School student Alexandre
D'Souza, like other high schoolers across the GTA, is gearing up for his prom
and graduation ceremony and spending the summer excited about embarking
on his post-secondary education.
But unlike most who are university-bound, D'Souza will be just 14 when he
starts a double biological- and chemical-engineering degree this fall at
McMaster University in Hamilton.
The school's admissions department does not collect information of its first-year
entrants by age so it is unable to say whether D'Souza is the youngest student
ever admitted to the university. However, Art Heidebrecht, McMaster's acting
dean of engineering, says he can't recall an admission of someone that young
in the nearly 50 years he's been at the school.
"It's very rare," Heidebrecht said. The engineering program typically receives more than 3,000 applicants.
"The fact that he knows which program he wants to go into, he's obviously very motivated. I doubt he'll have any difficulty."
D'Souza — tall, polite and friendly — shrugs off his youthfulness and plays down his academic record.
"I don't really like being judged by people by my age, " he said last night while sitting in the living room of his family's
Mississauga home. "I've always been younger and had no problem socially."
McMaster was his first choice and he was thrilled to accept the offer when it came in February.
Proud father Alfredo explains the family moved to Canada from India last year. Daughters Annalise, 23, Alexia, 21, are also
high academic achievers pursuing post-graduate and a double math/business degree respectively.
Their little brother "was always a star student, " says Alfredo, who works in business development.
Prior to coming to Canada, D'Souza studied in Bahrain, Singapore and Mumbai, India, where he completed Grade 10 with
distinction in all subjects.
When he was a 9-year-old schoolboy in Bahrain, D'Souza scored the highest marks worldwide in English and mathematics in
an international exam.
D'Souza's mother, Neomi, recalls her infant son sitting in front of the computer in diapers.
"We just couldn't get him off it," she says. He spent hours "self-learning," using online education programs and playing Battle
Chess, a videogame version of chess. "He soaked in the information."
Before starting school — which he did before his third birthday — D'Souza taught himself Arabic numbers walking around a
complex in Bahrain with a housemaid "just by looking at English."
He piled up academic awards and stellar report cards, now bound together in a large blue binder. Last year, D'Souza
amassed seven A-pluses and two As, the latter in chemistry and economics, "a subject I'd never done before, " the teenager
notes almost ruefully.
But this prodigy also makes time for fun, when he's not tutoring math to other students at St. Marcellinus. He loves playing
soccer, video games and piano.
Ideally, he would live at home rather than in residence — both for financial reasons and because of his age — but the family
is confident he'll be in a safe and secure environment after meeting with McMaster housing officials.
"They suggested a smaller, quieter residence, " says his dad.
Heidebrecht says there will be many challenges for a student this young.
"The individual — being not only bright and already coping with high school — has obviously faced some challenges in social
relationships and so forth. I'm sure he's quite capable of handling himself. However, we pay a lot of attention to students who
come in unusual situations."
D'Souza is not sure what he intends to do after he graduates — which could be when he is 18, typically the age students start
post-secondary education in Ontario.
"Maybe medical research, I'm not 100 per cent sure, " he says.
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News / Canada
Ontario health and education experts call on Queen’s
Park to update old sex education curriculum
Four months after Premier Kathleen Wynne promised to update the sex ed curriculum, teachers
and health experts want them to get on it — by fall
By:Louise Brown GTA, Education Schools, Published on Mon Jun 03 2013
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Ontario health and education experts are calling on Queen’s Park to get on with launching the new
sex education curriculum this fall that has been gathering dust for three years, and replace lessons
that are 15 years out of date.
The call comes four months after new Premier Kathleen Wynne said, “We are going to evolve our
health and physical education curriculum” in her first press conference after becoming Liberal
leader.
A coalition of 50 organizations, including Sick Kids Hospital, universities, teachers’ and parent
groups, was to release a report Monday showing a majority of Ontario parents surveyed in an
Environics poll believe schools should educate students on topics such as sexual orientation, selfesteem, contraception, abstinence and the correct names for body parts, to equip them to make
healthy decisions in a world that bombards them with unfiltered sexual content.
“The elementary health curriculum’s section on sexual health is woefully out of date for a world
where kids have access 24/7 to information that can be inaccurate and even damaging,” said Brock
University kinesiology professor James Mandigo, president of the Ontario Physical Health
Education Association (OPHEA).
“The curriculum they’re using was written before Twitter and smartphones and Facebook were
around, so kids need updated information to help them make healthy choices.”
The group is also concerned the province has delayed a new high school health curriculum that
tackles far more mental health topics than the old program, said Mandigo, “and reflects the
priority the province and students have put on bullying and equal rights for all individuals.
“In an age where same-sex marriage is now legal in Canada, and some kids come from same-sex
parents, respecting all kinds of families is who we are as Canadians.”
Former premier Dalton McGuinty withdrew the new sexual health part of an updated elementary
school health curriculum in 2010 after a small group of parents opposed its use of proper names
for body parts in Grade 1, its reference to homosexuality as early as Grade 3 (in the context of
“different kinds of families”) and suggested ways for teachers to answer questions about anal and
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oral sex if asked by students in junior high school during discussions of contraception and safe
sex.
“I have kids in these grades, too, and research shows the more factual information children have,
the more they’re equipped to ward off sexual predators and stand up for themselves and respect
other people’s choices — including abstinence — rather than being encouraged to be sexually
active,” said Mandigo. “It has quite the opposite effect.”
While Wynne and Education Minister Liz Sandals both have committed to consulting further with
parents, they have set no timeline yet, something OPHEA and its supporters say they want after
three years of curriculum limbo.
Dr. David McKeown, Toronto’s medical officer of health, wrote in an open letter to Sandals:
“Working with an outdated curriculum makes it extremely difficult for Toronto Public Health staff
to address important health issues that are emerging in the schools.
“When children need answers about healthy development, including sexual development,
reproductive health, decision making, interpersonal relationships, body image and gender roles,
they need to be able to ask their teachers. When they do not get answers from their school or their
parents, youth seek out peers, social media, and the Internet, where there are no controls on the
quality or accuracy of the information,” said McKeown. “Children and youth deserve reliable,
accurate and up-to-date information from a credible source.”
In a statement to the Star, Sandals said, “We are continuously reviewing all curriculum to ensure it
is current, relevant and age appropriate. We know that health and physical education is an
important topic for students and parents; that’s why we are committed to moving forward with
consultations on this component of the curriculum.”
But OPHEA noted the curriculum already was based on two years of consultations with thousands
of experts, students, parents and educators. They want Sandals to spell out how and when more
consultation will take place.
OPHEA also has teamed with the Ontario Student Trustees’ Association to make a two-minute
public awareness video featuring students who say that without an updated curriculum, their
generation lacks a voice on these issues.
“If our curriculum was our voice, it would tell us that there’s different kinds of families and allow
me to be more accepting of differences and stand up to bullying,” say students in the video. “And
what if that voice were taken away from us? The curriculum is missing the voice of this
generation.”
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Fewer kids commuting by foot, bike, report finds
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TORONTO — Fewer Canadian kids are commuting by walking or biking as a
new report reveals a marked decline among young people using active modes
of transportation.
Active Healthy Kids Canada released its annual Report Card on Physical
Activity for Children and Youth on Tuesday, assigning a "D" grade in the
category of active transportation. A "D minus" grade was given for overall
physical activity levels.
Children who use active transport for commutes to and from school can
accumulate up to 45 additional minutes daily of moderate- to vigorous-intensity
physical activity compared to kids travelling by car, train or bus.
Yet in Canada, a recent survey revealed that while 58 per cent of parents
walked to school when they were children, only 28 per cent of their own kids
were doing the same today.
"That's a reduction of 50 per cent in one generation. That's substantial by any estimate," said Mark Tremblay, chief scientific
officer of Active Healthy Kids Canada.
From 2000 to 2010, the percentage of youth aged 5-17 using only inactive modes of transportation for school commutes
increased from 51 per cent to 62 per cent.
The report found many data sources in different age groups suggested only 25 to 35 per cent of Canadian kids and youth use
active transport to and from school. Among youth aged 15 to 17, time spent walking daily dipped from 17 minutes to 11
minutes between 1992 and 2010.
Tremblay said active transportation is among "a whole bunch of pieces" that contribute to physical activity levels, along with
other key components such as active play, organized sports participation and physical education.
Tremblay said there may be instances where schools are too far away for youngsters to commute by their own power. But
research shows many examples where high numbers of kids are being ferried to destinations within a walking or biking
distance, he noted.
"There are kids that live 25 kilometres from the school. They can't walk or bike. And so we get that," said Tremblay, director of
Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute.
"But can those kids walk or bike to other things that are going on in their community? To their friend's house? To the baseball
pitch, which might be a couple of kilometres down the road?
"This isn't just about to and from school....We're talking about any trips."
If kids walked for all trips less than one kilometre in distance, it would translate, on average, to 2,238 additional steps each
day — or around 15 to 20 minutes of walking, the report said.
Tremblay said living in an auto-dependent society has made the process of commuting by car the norm.
"It's not even part of our consciousness. We just hop into the car and it's not like we ever thought: 'Why didn't we walk there?'
Because our frame of reference of distances to walk has reduced so much over time that we don't consider it a possibility.
"A kilometre, two kilometres, three kilometres, which are totally walkable (distances) and can be very enjoyable ... it just
doesn't cross our minds — and so we don't think of it for our kids, either."
Time, money and safety are the three key barriers to kids being more physically active, said Kelly Murumets, president &
CEO of ParticipAction.
Active transportation offers a simple, cost-effective, accessible way for parents to help ensure kids are getting the activity they
need without having to pay for organized sport, she noted.
In instances where kids are able to travel on foot, using pedal power or some other means of active transport, Murumets said
parents can organize walking school buses or bicycle caravans with a volunteer adult or group of parents convening with
youngsters to commute en masse.
"Kids are getting physical activity, they have social time, they're with other kids, they're safe because they're supervised,
(and) some of the parents who do work are able to make their way to the office," Murumets said.
"The other great element of that is the parent is being a great role model. And we know that more active parents have more
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Robert F. Hall student wins annual Caledon Fair poster competition
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Twenty-eight students from Robert F. Hall Catholic Secondary School competed
in the annual Caledon Fair poster competition with 16-year-old Alex Sincennes’
artwork selected by the jury. A student of Ms. Chuck’s Grade 10 class, Alex’s
piece was chosen for its “Big Picture” vision of the Fair.
Sincennes and his family will be special guests of the Fair, with the Grade 10
student participating in the welcome ceremonies on Saturday, June 8 at noon on
the main stage of the fairgrounds.
The Fair board thanks the enthusiastic participation of all the students in this
year’s poster contest which has become a tradition of one of Ontario’s oldest
agricultural fairs.
For more information, schedules and tickets visit caledonfairgrounds.ca.
(http://www.caledonfairgrounds.ca/)
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New poll shows 93 percent of parents want return of
sex ed
ONTARIO NEWS / Education Minister Liz Sandals says it's not a priority
Andrea Houston / National / Sunday, June 02, 2013
The executive director of an education advocacy group is calling on Ontario’s Ministry of Education to begin
consultations to reintroduce an updated sexual health curriculum in the fall.
“It is students' right to have a curriculum that is current and research-based. Having that curriculum sitting on
the shelf is an act of negligence,” says Chris Markham, executive director of Ontario Physical and Health
Education Association (Ophea), who is hosting a news conference at Queen’s Park at 12:30pm on June 3.
Ophea’s latest reports on sexual health education in schools across Canada highlight the disturbing
health trends facing Ontario’s children and youth. The reports show that the 2010 curriculum revisions are
comparable to similar updates in other provinces.
“Ontario’s health curriculum is the oldest in all of Canada,” Markham says. “Students are being left to fill in
the gaps on their own.”
It's been 15 years since the Ontario government last updated guidelines for teaching young people about
sexual health. The curriculum used today does not require teachers to include material about gay and lesbian
sexuality.
In 2010, the Ontario Liberals
announced the updated sexual
health curriculum but promptly
shelved it after religious groups
expressed outrage. Then-premier
Dalton McGuinty promised to
conduct further consultations with
parents that never materialized.
In January, newly elected Premier
Kathleen Wynne once again
committed to moving forward the
file. But since Wynne’s election, the
government has remained silent on
the issue.
“There are some significant health
risks facing Ontario kids today, and
the curriculum is one of the
province’s really important tools to
A new video by the Ontario Physical and Health Education
address some of those health risks,” Association (Ophea) shows youth demanding a return of the
Markham says.
updated curriculum.
Ophea is also releasing a parent opinion poll that suggests there is broad support for the government of
Ontario to move forward and release the curriculum.
The survey shows that 93 percent of parents want the update to return. Conducted by Environics Research
Group on behalf of Ophea, just over 1,000 parents were polled over a two-week period. It also shows that
nine out of 10 parents are comfortable with their children receiving information about sexual health from a
school curriculum.
“It’s going to be very difficult for the government to look at those findings and not do anything,” Markham
says. “I think the response that we are looking for from government is for them to lay out a clear plan and
make a commitment to releasing this curriculum by fall 2013.”
Education Minister Liz Sandals would not provide Xtra with a firm date for when parent consultations will
begin. Bringing back the curriculum is simply not a top priority, she says.
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“To be perfectly honest with you, the top of my
pile has been labour-relations issues, which we
are still working on, and ensuring we have
peace in the [education] land,” she says. “But
[sex ed] is absolutely on my radar.”
Sandals says Ontario parents will likely be
waiting for another year at least.
“There have been more immediate things that
I have to sort out,” she says. “Labour relations
is an urgent issue that we need to sort out
legislatively over the next six months.”
But Markham says that is not good enough. He
says Ontario students are demanding that their
government start consultations immediately.
“Students have a right to know when those
consultations are going to happen,” he says.
“Sexual health education, as part of an overall
health education, is a fundamental right of
students in the province of Ontario.”
Ophea reports that Ontario's health curriculum is the
oldest in Canada.
Ophea has the support of 50 other organizations, including Brock University, the Council of Ontario Directors
of Education, the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario, the Ontario Public School Boards' Association,
Queen’s University, Sick Kids Hospital, Queer Ontario and the University of Toronto.
The list of supporters even includes one Catholic school, Pope John Paul II Senior Elementary School in
Thunder Bay, the school's vice-principal says.
“There is overwhelming support to update this curriculum,” he says.
Much has changed since 2010, and Markham says he doesn’t
anticipate that there will be the same pushback from religious
groups and Catholic boards.
“The parents of children in Ontario’s publicly funded schools, 93
percent of them, are calling on the government of Ontario to
update this curriculum,” he says. “That includes public and
separate school systems . . . I don’t think we will see the same
type of issues that we saw back in 2010. I think the context has
changed.”
Last June, Ontario passed the Accepting Schools Act, a
groundbreaking piece of legislation that guarantees that students
can form supportive groups, called gay-straight alliances (GSA), or
whatever name students choose. Previously, GSAs were banned at
all Ontario Catholic schools.
Markham says the government now needs to catch up to students,
parents and progressive educators.
Education Minister Liz Sandals.
“We now have a critical mass of provincial policies that teach
students respect for diversity and respect for others and appreciating differences and inclusion,” he says.
At the Toronto Catholic District School Board, trustee John Del Grande supported a recent motion to ban
GSAs at all Toronto Catholic schools. The motion was defeated, but Del Grande warned that many Catholic
trustees and parents in Ontario will continue to fight the government if it attempts to bring back the revised
sex-ed curriculum.
And if that happens, Del Grande told Xtra he would consider a legal challenge.
“[Sex ed] doesn’t line up with Catholic teachings,” he says. “You have to remember, this is a Catholic school
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system, so anything that happens in a Catholic school system must go through a Catholic lens . . . There’s lots
of curriculum materials that the government puts out that Catholic schools have the right to modify.”
In 2011, when asked about the curriculum, MPP Glen Murray told Xtra that MPPs in less progressive ridings
have difficulty selling it to their constituents. “Rightwing reactionary homophobes just love these issues,” he
said.
But Markham says the updated curriculum teaches more than just gay and lesbian sexuality. It presents to
youth a diverse picture of families, reinforces self-esteem through positive body image, and teaches the
accurate names for body parts, which prevents abuse and even suicide, he says.
“The danger here is that this becomes an issue around only sexual orientation,” Markham says. “That is only
one component.”
Ophea Parent Opinion Survey: Summary of Findings
The following are the results of a survey of Ontario parents about sexual health education (as part of Ontario’s Health and
Physical Education curriculum), which was conducted by Environics Research Group on behalf of Ophea.
- Almost all Ontario parents (93%) are calling for an updated sexual health curriculum for elementary and secondary school
students to replace the existing curriculum written 15 years ago.
- This reflects the strong overall support for sexual health education in Ontario schools, with the large majority of parents (87%)
agreeing that this should be one component of overall health education. Only a very small proportion (2%) say this should not
be taught in schools.
- 9 in 10 parents are comfortable with their child receiving information about sexual health from a school curriculum. This is
second only to parents themselves (96%) and health professionals (96%) as parents’ preferred source for their children’s sexual
health information.
- Parents are much less comfortable with the sexual health information available from other sources, such as their children’s
peers (14%), TV and movies (13%), the internet (13%) and social media (6%).
- The vast majority of Ontario parents think all 13 sexual health education topics presented on the survey should be addressed
in schools. This is particularly true for self-esteem, sexually transmitted infections, and communication and decision-making
skills, but also includes physical, cognitive, social and emotional changes; puberty; skills for healthy relationships; contraception
methods; correct names for body parts, including genitalia; abstinence and delaying sexual activity; reproduction; sexual
orientation; and media literacy about sexual content.
- These results are similar across the province and among population segments. School board (public vs separate; English vs
French) is not a differentiator.
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Ottawa to announce new anti-bullying program at school of late teen
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News / Canada
Ottawa to announce new anti-bullying program at
school of late teen
“Why do people have to be cruel to our children when all they want to do is be loved?” asks father
of dead teen.
HO / THE CANADIAN PRESS
Ottawa city councillor Allan Hubley poses with his son, Jamie, in this family photo released Oct. 17, 2011. Hubley
says bullying was part of the reason his 15-year-old son took his own life. On June 3, 2013, the federal
government is set to announce a new national anti-bullying and anti-discrimination program.
By:Jennifer DitchburnThe Canadian Press, Published on Sun Jun 02 2013
OTTAWA—The suicide of 15-year-old Jamie Hubley in the fall of 2011 was a tragedy that hit the
local community hard, but personal connections sent the heartache reverberating through the
halls of Parliament Hill and the Ontario legislature too.
Hubley, an openly gay student who had been bullied throughout his school years, was the son of
Ottawa city councillor Allan Hubley — a politician with friends on the federal and provincial
political circles.
Hubley, the prime minister’s wife Laureen Harper and Heritage Minister James Moore are set to
announce a new national anti-bullying and anti-discrimination program on Monday at the late
teen’s former school.
The program, according to government sources, will be set up through the Canadian Red Cross.
The idea is to have thousands of young people trained to deliver anti-bullying workshops in their
communities, and promise to reach at least 20 other kids.
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“Our government wants to ensure that our young people have the resources they need to prevent
bullying, cyberbullying and discrimination,” an official said on condition of anonymity.
Jamie Hubley had been a figure skater, and the only openly gay student at A.Y. Jackson High
School in Kanata, Ont., a suburb of Ottawa.
His father said Jamie suffered from depression, and was bullied throughout his life. He has
advocated from more front-line services for bullied children since his son’s death.
“He just wanted someone to love him. That’s all,” Allan Hubley told CBC News in 2011. “And
what’s wrong with that? Why do people have to be cruel to our children when all they want to do is
be loved?”
Hubley’s death was part of the impetus for a provincial bill that was passed that introduced
tougher sanctions for bullies, and protection for teens that want to set up gay-straight alliances in
their schools.
At the time, some groups denounced the bill as infringing on religious freedoms.
Jamie Hubley had tried to start an anti-discrimination Rainbow Club at his school, but his father
said the posters were torn down and he was called vicious names in the hallways and online.
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Ottawa to launch national anti-bullying program in wake of
15-year-old Jamie Hubley’s suicide
JENNIFER DITCHBURN, CANADIAN PRESS | 13/06/02 9:13 PM ET
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The suicide of 15-year-old Jamie Hubley in the fall of 2011 was a tragedy that hit the local community hard, but personal connections
sent the heartache reverberating through the halls of Parliament Hill and the Ontario legislature too.
Hubley, an openly gay student who had been bullied throughout his school years, was the son of Ottawa city councillor Allan Hubley
— a politician with friends on the federal and provincial political circles.
Hubley, the prime minister’s wife Laureen Harper and Heritage Minister James Moore are set to announce a new national antibullying and anti-discrimination program on Monday at the late teen’s former school.
Our government wants to ensure that our young people have the resources they need to prevent
bullying
The program, according to government sources, will be set up through the Canadian Red Cross. The idea is to have thousands of
young people trained to deliver anti-bullying workshops in their communities, and promise to reach at least 20 other kids.
“Our government wants to ensure that our young people have the resources they need to prevent bullying, cyberbullying and
discrimination,” an official said on condition of anonymity.
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Jamie Hubley had been a figure skater, and the only openly gay student at A.Y. Jackson High School in Kanata, Ont., a suburb of
Ottawa.
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His father said Jamie suffered from depression, and was bullied throughout his life. He has advocated for more front-line services for
bullied children since his son’s death.
“He just wanted someone to love him. That’s all,” Allan Hubley told CBC News in 2011. “And what’s wrong with that? Why do people
have to be cruel to our children when all they want to do is be loved?”
Hubley’s death was part of the impetus for a provincial bill that was passed that introduced tougher sanctions for bullies, and
protection for teens that want to set up gay-straight alliances in their schools.
At the time, some groups denounced the bill as infringing on religious freedoms.
Jamie Hubley had tried to start an anti-discrimination Rainbow Club at his school, but his father said the posters were torn down
and he was called vicious names in the hallways and online.
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Campion repeats as Peel champs
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The St. Edmund Campion Bears have won another boys’ soccer championship.
Now they are hoping they can make a bit of history.
The Bears won their fourth Region of Peel Secondary School Athletic
Association (ROPSSAA) Tier 1 senior title in the last seven years as they
topped Our Lady of Mount Carmel Crusaders 2-1 in stifling conditions on
Thursday afternoon at the Mississauga Hershey Centre.
The Bears, who have won three Ontario Federation of Schools Athletic
Association (OFSAA) 4A titles in the last four years, head to next week’s
provincial tournament in Toronto aiming to become the first school to win four
crowns and going for a third consecutive crown.,
Mount Carmel, as the ROPSSAA runner-up, has also qualified.
After scoring two first-half goals the Bears put up a wall keeping the Crusaders
from scoring until they scored on a penalty just as time expired.
“Our back four really played well. They frustrated their forwards,” said Campion head coach Greg Spagnoli. Led by Tarik
Robertson, the Campion defense, which also included Joren Ramsay, Jamie Scott and Jamaal Coke, drew raves from
Carmel coach Robert Tucci.
“Their defense is solid. It has to be the fastest defense we’ve played against,” said Tucci.
Chris Nanco and Jonathan D’Aguilar had the Campion goals in the first half. Eric Wason broke the Bears’ shutout bid on a
penalty just before the referee blew his whistle.
The Bears head into OFSAA with a mark of 20-0-1, having a 1-1 tie with St. Francis Xavier in league play. Their league
record was 5-0-1. This is the second time they have taken an unbeaten record into OFSAA.
The OFSAA tournament begins Wednesday and continues until next Saturday in Toronto.
The Campion girls are also heading to the OFSAA 4A tournament for the first time despite a 3-0 loss to the Iona Dolphins in
Thursday’s second game the ROPSSAA Tier 1 senior girls’ final. Iona, the defending OFSAA 3A champions, had earlier
declared to go to the 3A tournament so Campion had earned its spot to go to OFSAA after an emotional 4-2 overtime victory
over Cardinal Leger on Tuesday in the semifinal.
Campion coach Jen Garthson admitted the team did not play with some of the same passion that they had shown against
Leger knowing their spot at OFSAA was secure.
“Some of them wanted it more than others. I hope they get it back by Tuesday,” she said.
The Bears play at OFSAA in Niagara Falls, while the Dolphins go to Windsor.
Iona coach Roger Capanelli said this was the first ROPSSAA title for his school in nearly a decade.
“We knew Campion was a strong team and they would play hard on the ball,” he said. “I told the girls if we just played our
game we would be alright.”
The Borgmann sisters did the scoring for Iona. Emily, in Grade 10 got a first-half goal and then got another early in the
second half. Her older sister Franny scored in the final seconds.
Jennifer Collingswood make several good saves, especially in the second half, to preserve the shutout.
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Crash course in manners for elementary students covers cellphones, table manners
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Your Toronto / Schools
Crash course in manners for elementary students
covers cellphones, table manners
An unusual pilot project in etiquette classes for Grade 6 students at Armour Heights Public School
wins praise from students, parents
KEITH BEATY / TORONTO STAR
Joanna Parris teaches students some of the niceties of table etiquette during a class at Armour Heights Public
School in North York.
By:Louise Brown GTA, Education Schools, Published on Thu May 30 2013
They practise keeping their young elbows off the table by squeezing a book under each arm as they
eat.
They learn not to scoop food with their fork — who knew? — but use their knife to push food into
place.
As part of an unusual crash course in etiquette, Grade 6 students at Toronto’s Armour Heights
Public School also have learned that a good, honest handshake — No “dead fish!” — pumps three
times, no more.
But in today’s rushed, digital world, good manners go beyond “pinkies up” protocol to include
lessons for respectful face-to-face behavior, from cellphone courtesy to the art of interrupting . . .
politely.
“We learned that when you’re talking to someone face-to-face, they should be the most important
person at that moment so you shouldn’t answer your cellphone unless it’s really important,” said
Naomi Rozmetova, 11, one of about 30 students who took six half-day lessons in manners from
image and etiquette consultant Joanna Parris as part of Ontario’s character education curriculum.
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A sort of Miss Manners for the pre-teen set, the classes wrapped up Wednesday with a review of
social skills — make eye contact and wait patiently when you want to interrupt — and a catered
lunch with tablecloth and proper place settings.
“We may be a casual society, but we’re still a polite society, and in today’s job market where so
many highly skilled people compete, it’s often the person who makes eye contact and smiles and
doesn’t take a phone call during the interview or plunk their purse on the interviewer’s desk, who
gets the job,” said Parris, who runs a company called BOSS Inc.
Teacher Paul Offor decided to bring in the manners guru “to help kids with social navigation.
They’re not horrible slobs, but we all need to be taught these things and adults don’t always think
to communicate them. I’m hearing a lot more ‘Excuse me’s’ already.”
At 12, Kolin McCullam said he now knows to “introduce your friend to an elder, like ‘Mom, this is
my friend from school’ — not the other way round. It shows respect.”
Offor proposed the pilot project after meeting Parris, a consultant who recently taught corporate
manners to students at the University of Windsor law school. Parents at Armour Heights covered
the $1,600 fee.
Principal Cate Spidle said she hopes to bring Parris back next year for a shorter period because she
believes the focus on considering others — the basis of manners — is important for children in a
largely affluent community who sometimes tend to have things done for them.
“We’re trying to bring them a broader scope of the world and a social justice outlook so they see
they have the power to help others,” said Spidle, who said “it’s often not what you do in life that
people remember, but how you do it.”
Parent Michaela Hutchison noted, “Families these days are so busy, busy, busy, and kids are so
inundated by social media that manners can get lost when people come face to face. But good
manners are learned behavior. This is all about making them more conscious of respecting
others.”
Seven of the most important phrases in life
I made a mistake and I’m sorry.
You did a good job.
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I appreciate you.
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‘Heads Up’
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Const. Brenda Evans stopped by a Grade 4 class at St. Cornelius on May 16 to
remind students to keep their ‘Heads Up.’
“Stay cautious and be aware of your surroundings,” she said to the group of
students. “Keep your head up the next time you’re walking on the street.”
The program, called Heads Up, was designed to teach kids to be responsible
when using their electronic devices and get them in the habit while they’re
young.
While only in Grade 4, most of the students in the class raised their hand when
asked if they had a cell phone.
“I want you to think about this next time your walking,” she said. Just one quick
text or change of a song could have an unfortunate outcome, she continued.
“Stop what you’re doing, take whatever electronic device you have, do what you have to do on it, then keep walking,” she
advised.
The presentation also went over pedestrian safety and other safety techniques when it comes to walking around
neighbourhoods.
Evans also told the kids to make eye contact with drivers before they cross the street to make sure the driver sees them.
“Drivers aren’t always looking at you,” she told the group.
She also urged the students to spread the message to their older siblings and parents if they see them getting distracted
while driving or walking.
As a reminder, the class left with a Frisbee labeled with Heads Up, which was provided in partnership with Caledon’s Road
Watch program.
It was just one of a few schools in the area that got a special visit during Police Week from May 12 to 18.
The week is a reminder about law enforcement officers lost while on duty and for local officers to engage in their community.
This year’s theme was “Walk the Digital Beat… A New Era of Engagement.” Police are constantly using new tools, such as
social media, to engage with the community and educate the public in new ways, according to a press release. But, with the
advent of new technologies also comes new hazards. The Heads Up program was one example of the new challenges and
new ways to keep people informed.
Other Police Week activities included police presentations to kindergarten classes, a car seat clinic, Detachment Commander
for the Day and a Bike Rodeo to teach local kids about bike safety.
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5/31/2013
School board vexed by minister’s unavailability
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PEEL— The Peel District School Board said it is having a tough time getting an
audience with the new education minister.
Peel Board Chair Janet McDougald said she requested a meeting with Minister
Liz Sandals but was told by the education minister’s office that she isn’t
currently meeting with any school boards.
“I was told the minister is not making appointments with school boards. She is
totally booked until the end of June,” McDougald recounted.
While Sandals would be visiting and touring school board programs between
then and now, McDougald said she was told the minister wouldn’t be conducting
any formal meetings with school board officials.
“I really wanted to sit down and talk to her about the funding formula again,” said
McDougald, who noted the board’s 2013/2014 budget is due at the end of June.
The board is engaged in what has been a lengthy and ongoing lobbying effort to get the provincial government to change the
formula being used in determining how much funding each school board receives.
Peel board has been arguing for years that local students are grossly underfunded because the government’s funding
formula is based on outdated census data.
The board is also spending about $12 million more than the province is providing in funding to meet the needs of local special
education students, according to McDougald.
She estimates the board would receive millions of dollars more if the province were using census data from 2006 instead of
2001 or 1996.
“I’m very disappointed,” McDougald remarked of the education minister’s unavailability. “Basically she said she didn’t have
time for us.”
As the second largest school board in the country, with critical funding issues that have not been addressed, McDougald said
Peel should be able to get some face-time with the minister.
“I would have hoped that we would have been a priority,” she said.
The board is planning to reignite its lobbying campaign that will enlist the aid of parents in trying to get the ministry’s attention
on local funding issues— particularly the funding shortfall facing special education.
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Toronto trustee proposes family ties be disclosed in hiring teachers
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Your Toronto / Schools
Toronto trustee proposes family ties be disclosed in
hiring teachers
TDSB Trustee Howard Goodman proposes alternative to seniority-hiring regulation: make
applicants disclose family ties.
By:Kristin RushowyEducation Reporter, Published on Wed May 29 2013
Hiring teachers based solely on seniority is “harmful to student achievement and well-being,” says
a Toronto trustee in putting forward a motion to revise new provincial rules that force principals
to choose from the five candidates who have been working the longest.
Trustee Howard Goodman (Eglinton-Lawrence) says the rules were put in place by the province in
its agreement with Catholic teachers to address their concerns about nepotism and then pushed
on public boards without any evidence it is an issue.
However, he is proposing the Toronto District School Board fine-tune conflict-of-interest policies
instead of tying principals’ hands when it comes to choosing the right teacher for the job.
“Every principal I know, every single one, is worried and somewhat livid about what’s going to
happen” under Regulation 274, said Goodman, whose motion goes before a board committee
Wednesday afternoon.
Hiring a teacher should be based on what is best for students and the school, and not simply who
has put in the most time, Goodman said.
Goodman doesn’t believe nepotism is an issue at any board — though he says there is no evidence
either way — but felt that rather than scrap Regulation 274, it would be easier if the province could
add to it by offering boards some options to choose from.
“The motion calls on the minister (of education) to allow boards to implement processes that
ensure fair and transparent hiring practices, without using seniority,” he said. “Seniority is one
way, but there are other ways, too.”
He said Regulation 274 implies “that our principals are not to be trusted.” What he is proposing
costs little and sends the message that administrators “continue to use your judgment, we believe
in you — we are not saying you are all corrupt and can’t be trusted, just that circumstances arise
that put you in a conflict, so let us know so that we can deal with it.”
His motion calls on the Toronto board’s director to set up a process to identify, monitor and
regularly report on hiring.
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Goodman hopes a committee looking at Regulation 274 will take his motion into account and get
its work done in time for fall hiring, which is in the early stages.
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Students go talent-to-talent in art competition
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MISSISSAUGA — Every year, student artists from secondary schools at the
Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board come together to showcase their
talent and to compete against one another.
This year saw 19 schools take part in Images 2013, a juried show with
professional artists, consultants, curators and gallery owners selecting winners
from their area of expertise.
Categories include drawing, painting, printmaking, mixed media, traditional and
altered photography and computer graphics.
More than 200 visitors were on hand last night when the show opened in the
Civic Centre’s Great Hall.
“(The show) drew the eyes of the interested public well before set-up was even
completed. It was a resounding success,” said Board spokesperson Michelle
Rodricks, who helped organized the event. The exhibition runs until Sunday.
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Fees, fundraising increase gap between Ontario's have, have-not schools: report
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TORONTO — The reliance on fees and fundraising in Ontario public schools is
creating a two-tier system that limits poorer students' access to special
programs and extracurriculars, despite the province's efforts to level the playing
field, a new report says.
The annual report released Monday by the independent advocacy group People For Education says there's still a big
difference between what's offered at schools in wealthier areas and those in less affluent ones — something that can affect
students' chances in the future.
The average family income at a school influences students' odds of participating in gifted and French immersion programs,
extracurricular activities and even some classes, such as academic-level math, the document says.
"Those are all core components of that broader education that really makes a difference to students ... not just when they're
in school, but in their lives," says Annie Kidder, People For Education's executive director.
"They're more likely to be engaged, for one thing, which means they're more likely to do better, but it also gives them a
deeper kind of learning," she says.
In Ontario elementary schools, the average family income is about $82,000, but that number drops to just under $44,500 in
low-income schools, according to the findings. That's less than a third of the norm in richer schools, where the average family
income comes close to $152,800.
And though schools aren't allowed to charge for materials required for the core curriculum, the report says imposing fees and
fundraising for other activities "increases the gap between 'have' and 'have-not' schools."
Schools with a richer student body can collect more money, which translates into more sports, arts and other programs, it
says.
"The majority of schools charge fees — for everything from field trips to sports — and the majority provide some form of
subsidy for students who can’t pay," the study reads.
"But there is no overall system in place to ensure that fees don’t prevent students from fully participating in school life," it
says.
In some cases, educators rely on "quiet conversations" with parents to arrange subsidies for poorer students, while others
force recipients to complete volunteer work in exchange for financial help, it says.
Since the province barred fees for mandatory courses in 2011, the number of high schools collecting lab or material fees has
dropped to 41 per cent from 68 — a "dramatic decrease," Kidder says.
"Where there was a kind of grey area left in the policy is that you can charge fees for so-called enhanced materials," which
aren't clearly defined, she says.
Roughly a quarter of schools continue to charge for art, health and physical education, while nearly 20 per cent do so for
design and technology courses, music classes and family studies, the report says.
Five per cent charge for science and a handful report fees linked to business, English and math courses.
At the elementary level, 91 per cent of schools ask students to pay for field trips and 52 per cent for extracurriculars, it says.
Education Minister Liz Sandals says she expects school boards to "develop programs that allow the opportunity for all
students to participate and minimize fees as much as possible."
When it comes to fundraising, boards have the authority to pool donations across their properties and redistribute as needed,
which could narrow the gap between richer and poorer schools, she says.
Sandals also says the province offers financial assistance based on family income through the Learning Opportunities Grant,
but the report says the money is going to programs for all students.
It recommends the creation of a new grant focused on programs proven to "mitigate socio-economic and ethno-racial factors
affecting disadvantaged students."
The report, titled "Mind The Gap: Inequality in Ontario's Schools," is based on a survey of more than 1,100 elementary and
high school principals across the province. That represents nearly a quarter of Ontario's public schools.
It also includes demographic data from Ontario's Education Quality and Accountability Office, an independent agency that
administers provincial standardized tests.
http://www.mississauga.com/news-story/3239344-fees-fundraising-increase-gap-between-o... 6/4/2013
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Farren Tropea believes schools can do a better
job raising awareness about mental health
education. Other members of Ontario’s Student
Advisory Council want a greater emphasis on
promoting inclusiveness. And others want
schools to address First Nations issues.
What makes these students unique is that their
ideas don’t simply go into a suggestion box.
They go right to the Minister of Education.
Tropea is one of 63 students who represent the
Catholic, French and public school boards as
members of the province’s Ontario Student
Advisory Council. Established in 2008, the
council is open to students from Grade 7 through
12 who go through an application process before
ministry staff select the candidates.
“The Ministry of Education believes that students
have the right to be heard and given the
opportunity to be consulted about decisions that
impact them,” said Gary Wheeler, ministry
spokesperson.
“All partners, including students, have an essential role to play in improving schools and the education
system as a whole.”
Tropea, the Catholic representative from Thunder Bay, says it is important that the adults who
formulate education policy and the curriculum give students a spot at the table.
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“If you’re sitting around a table with a bunch of people who haven’t been to high school in years, and
with times changing so much, they are never going to hear a student’s voice,” she said. “They are never
going to get a (student) opinion on topics like mental health awareness. There was such a stigma on
that when they were in high school that it wasn’t even an issue and now it is such a big issue.”
Tropea is passionate about raising mental health awareness.
“Suicide rates are climbing. When I was at the meeting in Toronto recently, every single student at that
meeting could have given at least one example of being directly affected by someone in their life who
has had a mental illness,” said the Grade 11 student from St. Ignatius High School.
“Catholic or non-Catholic, you are affected by it. Without being educated in these fields of illness then
you are never going to be able to help people the way that God asks you to help people.”
Tropea said she feels her high school is doing a great job at spreading mental health awareness and
supporting students currently suffering. But she said more can, and needs, to be done — and done
earlier.
“We feel that getting students educated at an earlier age on mental awareness would be beneficial for
all students because getting them educated before they hit high school is pretty much the only way you
can educate them early,” said Tropea.
Next school year the council will speak directly to the minister on two occasion and will have several
other opportunities to weigh in via virtual communication. Tropea intends to raise the subject of
spreading mental health education to students in elementary school.
The council will meet again in August to finalize recommendations they’ll be making in the 2013-14
school year. Tropea hopes to benefit from the experience in several ways.
“I hope that it will help me make friends, make memories and also make me feel like I can actually
make a difference in this world,” she said. “I have the chance to address things and hopefully make a
change which is so inspiring and such a good opportunity for someone my age.”
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