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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

Striking Metro teachers, above, should return to their classrooms if they want respect, one reader says

Date11/14/1975
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Original Toronto Star caption: Striking Metro teachers; above; should return to their classrooms if they want respect; one reader says. Two other readers support the teachers; saying their contributions to society are immeasurable.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0016802F
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      Teachers who are familiar with the culture of immigrant children should tackle the problem of racism, says Hugh Evelyn, above. He says he is amazed at passive attitude of teachers from Caribbean.
      Slaughter, Mike
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      Still on strike mentally, as one teacher says, some of the 8,800 striking teachers legislated back to work form protest lines outside Jarvis Collegiat(...)
      Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
      1/19/1976
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      Darrell, Dick
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      Striking Teachers should go back to work and settle their dispute by compulsory arbitration, a decided majority of people at a meeting in North York i(...)
      Mahler, John
      11/13/1975
      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.
      Cooper, David
      2/15/1980
      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
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      8/12/1992
      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
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      Goode, Jeff
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      Combs, Erin
      1/12/1978
      Teacherless Students at Lawrence Park Collegiate work on algebra by themselves yesterday in one of the classrooms
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      Spremo, Boris
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