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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

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

Date8/12/1992
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0127860F
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
Batting injuries: Dr. Haward Fisher models The Back Strip, a harness aimed at reducing the risk of back injury.
Batting injuries: Dr. Haward Fisher models The Back Strip, a harness aimed at reducing the risk of back injury.
2/3/1988
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(...)
8/9/1967
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
Striking Metro teachers, above, should return to their classrooms if they want respect, one reader says
Striking Metro teachers, above, should return to their classrooms if they want respect, one reader says
11/14/1975
Metro teachers left their classrooms May 14 to march on Queen's Park in protest against the ceilings imposed on spending by Education Minister Thomas (...)
Metro teachers left their classrooms May 14 to march on Queen's Park in protest against the ceilings imposed on spending by Education Minister Thomas (...)
5/30/1973
The woman who won a landmark decision banning prayer from American classrooms, only to see her own son become a preacher, Madalyn O'Hair criticizes Pope's visit to Metro
The woman who won a landmark decision banning prayer from American classrooms, only to see her own son become a preacher, Madalyn O'Hair criticizes Pope's visit to Metro
1/24/1984
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
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
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
An outline of the general regulations and method of teaching in the male national model school, for the use of teachers
An outline of the general regulations and method of teaching in the male national model school, for the use of teachers
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