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| TDSB director of education Donna Quan says there is "room for improvement" in the way the board reports, analyzes and acts upon school violence. |
Two former classmates at a northwest Toronto high school confronted each other in a stairwell. One was stabbed in the stomach. The other one walked away.
A student in a Junction-area high school brought his handgun to class for the day, a discovery police made after arriving with a warrant for his arrest.
Masked intruders ran into a west Toronto school library where they punched and kicked a student before outrunning teachers.
And in central Etobicoke, a fight broke out between a boy and a group of girls at the plaza across from the high school. The girls attacked adults who tried to stop the melee. When the boy’s friends arrived from a different school, they jumped on a student on the school’s sports field, stabbing him three times in the back. The phys-ed teacher chased them down, holding one until police arrived.
These are a few of the serious incidents that rocked Toronto high schools last year. Taken from a report compiled for the Toronto Star by the Toronto District School Board, the 1,100 incidents over a four year-period provide a snapshot (these are not all of the cases) of the hidden side of high school life. (more...)
On social media:
”Near misses” show surviving school violence is pure luck http://t.co/LueZIKFUGB As I've said for years, many #TDSB schools are not safe.
— Sam Sotiropoulos (@TrusteeSam) November 27, 2014
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