You know, I usually make it a practice to sort of note what is going on in the city of Toronto and then put it promptly out of my mind. I don’t live there, I do live within 90 minutes of the city and I do avoid heading to the place. My usually reason for crossing into the boundaries of the city is to cross them on my way to my sister’s place in London.

I paid scant attention to the black focus school debate. My first thought on them was that it would segregate kids, particularly immigrant kids, who should be integrating and mixing with other races and those born here in this country. It would tend to strengthen young black’s view of being apart, isolated in Canadian society. Most kids, and I don’t care what colour or race they are, want to belong, to be included — yet at the same time, kids tend to cluster according to where they attend school. Read the rest of this entry »