I had a link to the staff report that outlined the board’s path to closing schools and selling publicly owned land to the private sector. But now the link to the GAPP (General Asset and Program Planning) doesn’t work. There are other board pages talking about the GAPP but not the report itself. Probably just a coincidence, right? Or it could just be my lousy internet skills.
Well, I did save this public document here 080410_gapp_1259.
This document appears to be a scholarly but is actually a political apology. For example, “As a result, it is expected that there is an achievement advantage in TDSB when Grade 6 students are located in an elementary configuration that includes prior grades in the same school. (Research to test this assumption has not been conducted in TDSB.)” Page 10.
But 15 years ago North York claimed that they had to get the grade 6 kids out of the elementary schools for the same reason. Then, they actually wanted to move the grade 9s into the high schools in order to boost the enrolment there to protect the buildings from the Catholic Board. So the grade 6s had to be bumped into the middle schools. It was politics not academics that drove us then and now.
See What is a good school size and organization? for more on this.
