Can’t live with cops, can’t live without them. If students can’t get habituated to shooting hoops with police in their learning years, and community cops can’t learn how to relate to students in their youth, how does that bring everyone together going forward? Now, students in specialized arts programs and gifted classes are also in the sights of the TDSB, which worries that minority students aren’t sufficiently represented. Rather than raise their game by ensuring the broadest selection of students, there is talk among trustees of gutting the programs. Whether it’s community policing or specialized schooling, Toronto’s trustees are too often tempted to tear down programs rather than persevere and make them better.

Source: thestar November 30, 2017 01:18 UTC