Opinion

Is the Upper Canada District School Board educating sheep or future thinkers, leaders, and policy-makers? After a student walkout at Glengarry District High School in late October, UCDSB Superintendent of Schools Tim Mills expressed his […]

The oft-repeated comments from trustees and other school officials from the Upper Canada District School Board to parents is, follow the ARC process. It is repeated in nearly every release or boilerplate response by email, […]

Electricity issues took centre stage at Queen’s Park this week, as the Government tried to fight off questions and revelations on no less than three fronts. First, it was revealed that only a fraction of […]

According to the Ontario Public School Board Association’s website, the role of a school board trustee is defined  as being the locally-elected representatives of the public. “They are the community’s advocate for public education.” If […]

To All Who Will Listen, I sit here in front of my computer with a blank page. It has taken me this long to write, not because I don’t have anything to say but because […]

New Year’s Eve is the traditional occasion for making some splendid resolutions. It’s become a time for deciding how your life should shape up for the year ahead, a time for planning how you should […]

Was the Upper Canada District School Board being facetious when it named its closure plan Building for the Future? The board’s senior staff (its superintendents) are choosing to close Seaway District High School and shuffle […]

I am writing to the Board today on behalf of the 66,000 residents of the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry to express the deep concern County Council has with the draft recommendations contained […]

Nine years ago, administrators for the Upper Canada District School Board began an accommodations review process (ARC) called Boundary 2020. The results from that process saw two of the four elementary schools in South Dundas […]

I see myself as one of the lucky ones. I spent my first seven grades in a one room school planted in an acre of long grass about two miles away, along a bumpy gravel […]