Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Thorncliffe all-kindergarten school?


I saw this article today on CityTv:

http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/local/article/64193--tdsb-reportedly-considering-all-kindergarten-school

the Toronto public board is considering creating an all-kindergarten campus, according to a published report.

Thorncliffe Park Elementary...currently has more than 600 kindergarten students and is struggling to find solutions to deal with its ever-swelling student population.

The high numbers of new Canadians that are constantly moving into the area have caused the entire student population at the school to grow to nearly 2,000 – that’s about five times the city average. Thorncliffe Park Elementary, which has already outgrown a 2003 addition, only houses kids in junior kindergarten to Grade 5...

The TDSB is seriously considering the idea of using a new building next to the existing school as a kindergarten-only facility. A new $16 million building is slated to go up in 2011, but how that building will be used and by which students, is still up in the air.

Ok, I'm not sure if any of these people have been to Thorncliffe lately but exactly where are they thinking of putting a new school? There is zero room for anything around here so I'm interested in how this plays out. 600 kindergarten students is more than we had in my entire elementary school growing up. 2000 kids is more than my highschool! Amazing to think of our kids being part of this mix.

**UPDATE** from CBC: The school has 32 kindergarten classes alone, which have about 800 to 1,000 students.

Saturday, November 14, 2009

The sayings of Sylas v23 - Generation gap!!

Tonight we sat down for dinner.
Mommy served chicken fingers & curly fries.
The conversation went like this:

Sylas: Yum!! Mommy!! Curly fries!!
Mommy: Sylas...this one is for you...wow, it's so long it looks like a telephone cord
Sylas: um...what's a telephone cord?

I guess we've only ever had cordless or cell phones since he's been alive. oh boy we're getting old!