Or to have checked the school's Grade 10 literacy scores. Just 41 per cent passed. If that's Toronto's second-best public school, we're all in trouble. Overreliance on system-wide report cards is risky. In fact, the Fraser Institute has withdrawn its study after private schools claimed the research was seriously flawed.
Falsehoods do damage, but the search for the truth goes on.
Parents need a little truth in their slingshots when they're battling with the education system. Any parent can tell you how damnably infuriating schools and boards can be. They are prone to denial. Hence the international trend to assess the schools. Without that source of heat, parents have little power.