It seems like every year I am faced with a teacher who wants to keep a grade 8 student in Middle School for another year. Usually these requests are for one of two reasons:
The student is not working hard, and thus is not meeting learning outcomes.
The teacher believes that the students is not socially or [...]
Recently in Vancouver there has been a proliferation of gangland shootings taking place in public places, and it seems inevitable that someone innocent will be killed. The other day I was listening to a sports talk radio show and they had Wally Oppal (The Attorney General of the province) on to discuss these recent shootings [...]