Ottawa parents are ranked in OCSDB to beg for alternative schools

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In Ottawa’s five alternative school, parents went to bed for schools that can be canceled as part of a large number of elementary software changes.

Almost two delegations at the meeting of the Special Management Board on February 26, called the Vice-Rector, especially the benefits of the benefits of difficulty in the main classrooms.

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Others wrote a letter of support to the program Student-based learning philosophy and sometimes described Waldorf-Ish.

Alternative schools allow students to investigate their rapidly. There are mixed ages in each class. There are no report cards until parents insist.

As of October 2023, there were 865 students in alternative programs Lady Evelyn, Riverview, Churchill, Regina Street and Summit.

“On the stick, each classroom is a mixed price and was done for this purpose,” Emily said The parent of the co-chair of the Admission Committee of Addison, Churchill and Alternative Schools Advisory Committee, in an interview.

There is a focus on non-competition and competition Cooperation.

“There are no rewards in our schools. No valedictorian, no best after graduates, there are none of them,” he said.

“No one can join a sports team, no matter what sports. There are no people speaking. There are no gifts from the science exhibition. Thus, you have a lot of pressure in terms of competition and comparison.”

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Although the teachers have to determine a price presented in the Ministry of Education, a report card from an alternative school is going home without any price, although if parents want, addison will receive online rates. Instead, focus is where students need the strong side, the next and support.

The philosophy behind the alternative program was once outside the main influx of education. Explaining the reasons for the cutting programs, the Ottawa-Carleton District School Council said many of the alternative program embraced the regular grades.

Many of the parents did not agree, claiming that the program could not be repeated in the main schools.

Pamma Watson, who was a student on his son Regina Avenue, said he was written to a Montessori school until his son was unaccountable. He would likely handle a traditional school, but it is superior in an alternative environment, he said.

“There is an alternative program, affiliation, character development and a supporting educational environment that cannot be repeated in all schools simply,” Watson said. “These practices can be offered to be copied and stick to a hard-sized match – the whole model is simply unreal.”

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Other parents spoke about the importance of choice within the Public School System.

One father of two people can like Crofton’s steering, some people’s idea of ​​competing, but alternative schools are “cooked into a piece of school” with a tire of cooperation and innovation. “

Other parents did their appeals in writing. In his letter to his patronsors, Adam announced the frustration of finding a training model for the son of Barnett.

“I would expect me to collect my child at the school door every afternoon and almost went down to the pillow until the last failure of being quiet or calm down to the paddle until the fence of a head.”

The school Council failed his son, but saved him through alternative software.

“In the alternative program, the change in my child until the third day was amazing,” he said. “Instead of evading the questions about the day, he was superior to informing his teacher about his teachers or with his friends he had contacted him.”

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Addison, a number of school boards also said that alternative schools offer their own versions. Toronto District School Council is 19 primitive alternative school, he said.

However, the “brand” problem of alternative schools accepts the problem. Several parents know that it is or a choice.

“We think that the term finding the term will help a while with parents,” said the term “alternative”, for example, can start newcomers to Canada.

“We have taken steps in some main areas and wanted to continue to make these steps. Now we must fight to maintain the program we provide so much benefit.”

OCSDB chairman Lynne Scott thanked parents according to his comments, and the attorney will be sure that the problems will be sure of the problems before making any decision.

“These are important decisions. The board is decisions that the Board will take very serious,” he said.

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