Do NIMBYs run the TDSB? Part 2
A follow up to part 1: Do NIMBYS run the TDSB?
In response to a question on the last post: Did you find any other similar examples?
This isn't meant to be comprehensive, but if we search the school zone boundary files for zones with at least 5 polygons, we get a shortlist of complex zones, most of which look to be similar to the Earl Hair/Georges Vanier example. In fact many of them are in the same area.
1. North Preparatory Junior Public School
2. McKee Public School
3. Whitney Junior Public School
4. Bayview Middle School
5. Allenby Junior Public School
6. Lillian Public School
7. George Harvey Collegiate Institute
8. Eglinton Junior Public School
9. Crestview Public School
These were the top results, but at the margins I think this is fairly common throughout the TDSB school system. In many neighborhoods the new construction will be occurring on arterial routes, so those could be pushed in to neighboring zones without using cut outs. But in highly densified areas, the neighboring zone may be full also, so the TDSB has to get creative.
The question for me is why do we assume the new construction should get pushed into new inconvenient zones? The logic seems to be that whichever home was in zone first shall remain there in perpetuity. In the name of school certainty for home owners, we are creating permanent inconvenience for kids that live in these areas.
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4 年I believe it has to do with capacity limits within the schools not NIMBYism. When newer high density developments are built in the catch basin of a school that is already at capacity; instead of uprooting students who have historically been a part of the school, the TDSB directs students to schools with a lower enrollment and the capacity to take on the extra students. I would imagine that TDSB would have to redraw the lines at some point, the question is when and how frequently. Also, what are the demographics of the schools with higher ratings? are they in more privileged neighbourhoods. I don't believe that the education is any worse between schools with better or worse scores its just different and it's really up to the individual student and how they apply it.