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Makeshift high school consisting of 15 portable classrooms, a recreation centre and six rooms in a condemned school is inspected by Toronto Board of E(...)
Makeshift high school consisting of 15 portable classrooms, a recreation centre and six rooms in a condemned school is inspected by Toronto Board of E(...)

Makeshift high school consisting of 15 portable classrooms, a recreation centre and six rooms in a condemned school is inspected by Toronto Board of E(...)

Date8/9/1967
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Original Toronto Star caption: Makeshift high school consisting of 15 portable classrooms, a recreation centre and six rooms in a condemned school is inspected by Toronto Board of Education Chairman William Ross. A permanent school is planned for area.
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Makeshift high school consisting of 15 portable classrooms, a recreation centre and six rooms in a condemned school is inspected by Toronto Board of E(...)
Makeshift high school consisting of 15 portable classrooms, a recreation centre and six rooms in a condemned school is inspected by Toronto Board of E(...)
8/10/1967
Portables fill playground: From the roof of St. Roch Separate School on Duncanwoods Dr. in North York, Metro Separate School Board Chairman Bruno Suppa can see pupils play among 20 portable classrooms that occupy most of the playground. Yet a few streets away, Whitfield Public School is more than half empty. The province is trying to make the public and separate systems co-operate in using available space.
Portables fill playground: From the roof of St. Roch Separate School on Duncanwoods Dr. in North York, Metro Separate School Board Chairman Bruno Suppa can see pupils play among 20 portable classrooms that occupy most of the playground. Yet a few streets away, Whitfield Public School is more than half empty. The province is trying to make the public and separate systems co-operate in using available space.
2/15/1980
Poor ventilation and chemical fumes in portable classrooms are blamed for air pollution
Poor ventilation and chemical fumes in portable classrooms are blamed for air pollution
1/15/1988
About 20,000 students in Peel Region walked out of their high school classrooms yesterday to protest the breakdown in negotiations between teachers an(...)
About 20,000 students in Peel Region walked out of their high school classrooms yesterday to protest the breakdown in negotiations between teachers an(...)
4/6/1977
Two of the boys relax after school by playing billiards in one of the recreation rooms of the Barrie house
Two of the boys relax after school by playing billiards in one of the recreation rooms of the Barrie house
3/25/1974
Ready to help: Ed Gough, a teaching assistant in the Bathurst-Eglinton area, volunteered for a program aimed at putting more male role models into Metro's elementary school classrooms
Ready to help: Ed Gough, a teaching assistant in the Bathurst-Eglinton area, volunteered for a program aimed at putting more male role models into Metro's elementary school classrooms
8/12/1992
Thousands of school children in Western Ontario deserted their classrooms to cheer the King and Queen at the many stops made by the royal train betwee(...)
Thousands of school children in Western Ontario deserted their classrooms to cheer the King and Queen at the many stops made by the royal train betwee(...)
6/17/1939
Empty classrooms are already the reality in Ontario's clementary schools, where enrolment is down by one thrid, to 1 million. Next year, secondary sch(...)
Empty classrooms are already the reality in Ontario's clementary schools, where enrolment is down by one thrid, to 1 million. Next year, secondary sch(...)
1/12/1978
Hats on: Students at Oshawa's O'Neill Collegiate make a fashion statement after a protest, then compromise, allowed students to wear caps in school, but not in classrooms or the auditorium
Hats on: Students at Oshawa's O'Neill Collegiate make a fashion statement after a protest, then compromise, allowed students to wear caps in school, but not in classrooms or the auditorium
10/22/1992
Ontario training centre Brampton boys walk freely from classrooms to cottage style dormatories's
Ontario training centre Brampton boys walk freely from classrooms to cottage style dormatories's
5/26/1971
Not a typical professor, Robert Logan teaches students at his two-hour class at Seed, Toronto's unconventional high school operating from rented rooms in the Young Men's Hebrew Association building on Spadina Ave
Not a typical professor, Robert Logan teaches students at his two-hour class at Seed, Toronto's unconventional high school operating from rented rooms in the Young Men's Hebrew Association building on Spadina Ave
2/16/1971
Classroom at home: Sidney Ledson teaches his daughter Jena, 15, at home after removing the girl from Scarborough high school because he felt her education was suffering
Classroom at home: Sidney Ledson teaches his daughter Jena, 15, at home after removing the girl from Scarborough high school because he felt her education was suffering
1/15/1985