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Crackower: Board chariman says one alternative if the kids are leaving and acting up is to close the schools.
Crackower: Board chariman says one alternative if the kids are leaving and acting up is to close the schools.

Crackower: Board chariman says one alternative if the kids are leaving and acting up is to close the schools.

Date10/22/1979
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Black-focused' education: Tracy Stewart, 18, a student at the Subway Acadmy alternative school, believes settling up schools that emphasize black studies is a good idea
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They cared enough to act: Huron St. public school principal Art Bussey (left), teacher Rosemary Kelly (above with class of children) have experienced the special needs of the children of battered women staying in nearby hostels, and pushed for action to help the kids. You need time, patience and good listening skills, Bussey says.
3/10/1982
Exposed kids: Father Roger Beals says his two kids, Travis and Cameron, were soaked with poisonous insecticides when a Toronto parks worker, wearing a gas mask, began spraying trees around the Kew Gardens area.
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8/17/1987
No public funds: Doug Little, a trustee on the Toronto Board of Education, says no money should be given to support private schools
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Clive Beck heads a provincial research project in the field of moral and values education. We need to help kids see the complexity of moral issues, he says.
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A former shoeshine boy, David Blackmore, left, is now known as the 'Pied Piper of Cabbagetown'. He founded the Cabbagetown Community Arts Centre which, he says, 'keeps kids out of the kind of trouble I used to get into.'
A former shoeshine boy, David Blackmore, left, is now known as the 'Pied Piper of Cabbagetown'. He founded the Cabbagetown Community Arts Centre which, he says, 'keeps kids out of the kind of trouble I used to get into.'
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Reformed addict: I don't think I'd be here today, or be alive today, without a rehabilitation program, says Chris Loeppky, who now counsels street kids
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