Galois and Cayley Math Contests. Grade 11 student Emma Graham won silver at the Regional Science Fair and was a finalist at the Sanofi-Aventis BioTalent Challenge for the second year in a row. She also won a Mandarin language competition in Montreal and will travel to China to compete in the fall" I bet there is no waiting around to see if a learning struggle will go away, as in our public schools. There was an ETFO forum that I joined over the summer, called Kids Matter. It is now closed, but the general discussions, or quite a few centered around resources and the students lacking a solid foundation in the 3 Rs. Here is one small snippet, that I was surprised to see that teachers have observed, yet HQ union, would never omit openly, or any other union for that matter. But in a private school, no such problems, and the issues usually are surrounding if the school is a good fit for their children. In a public school setting, there is no concern over that one. All children must assimilate, or be left behind???? Perhaps if the top layers went away, the parents and teachers of the community, would than have the ability to deliver a quality education. Perhaps even having most children reading at 1 to 2 grade levels. If anything I have learned, you gotta shoot for the stars, and than plan accordingly to make it happen, by goal setting. "Principals are rewarded for NOT spending