A recent Toronto Star series,produced by investigative reporters Robert Cribb and Jennifer Yang , created a sensation by conveying the strong impression that private schools inflate student marks and some privately-owned Toronto high schools operate as virtual "credit mills." http://www.thestar.com/printarticle/1054\\... The second expose was a gripping undercover story, once again highlighting the perennial problem of so-called VISA schools operating beyond the irreproachable scrutiny of Ontario's Ministry of Education inspectorate. Since 2009, the Toronto Star also reported that the Ontario MOE had received dozens of complaints about "private schools," including many about the greatest 'credit mill' of them all, Scarborough's notorious "Toronto Collegiate Institute." http://www.parentcentral.ca/parent/artic\\... -- star-investigation-slacking-off-gets-hig\\... Slacking-off can earn students high marks at the TCI Summer School, but so what? Most struggling high school students have known for years that the easiest route to re-gaining a Mathematics or Science high school credit is by attending Summer School anywhere. The Toronto Collegiate Institute is, by most accounts, only the most blatant example of the practice, common in both public and private education. For the most part, simply "putting in the hours" guarantees you a credit and a touched-up mark. News stories like the Toronto Star series attempt to blacken the reputation of not only 'fly-by-night' private schools, but also to sully the reputation of Canadian private schools, including some of Canada's outstanding independent schools. http://www.cais.ca/ Indeed, someone with only a passing acquaintance with Canadian private school world or an ideological axe to grind, might easily be taken-in by such clap-trap. Students