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Fighting back: Teacher Tim McCaskell and Faith Holder, 18, take part in a recent meeting of Students of Toronto Against Racism, a school board-sponsored group
Fighting back: Teacher Tim McCaskell and Faith Holder, 18, take part in a recent meeting of Students of Toronto Against Racism, a school board-sponsored group

Fighting back: Teacher Tim McCaskell and Faith Holder, 18, take part in a recent meeting of Students of Toronto Against Racism, a school board-sponsored group

Date2/8/1993
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His 31 years with the North York Board of Education give teacher Walker Dear (middle) the second-longest service record of high school teachers in the borough. Technical director at Downsview Secondary School since 1962, he retires June 30. With him are two of his former students who now are teachers at the school. Gordon Brown (left) and Stan Tsoki as they recall some of the years.
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Club founder: Ken Johnson, teacher at East York Collegiate, school attended by students pictured above, started the Black Students' Union four years ago
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Leads the way: Teacher Ed Rogan leads his students from Our Lady of Sorrows School in Etobicoke through a run during their lunch hour.
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Teacher Brian Taylor gives stock market tips to students at Horizon alternative school
Teacher Brian Taylor gives stock market tips to students at Horizon alternative school
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Lionel Remillard believes the Metro School Board's policy is denying some of his students an education in their mother tongue.
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