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Ottawa school bans balls at recess

by phdinparenting on January 22, 2010

This week an Ottawa school, D. Roy Kennedy Public School, has been in the news and featured on the Free Range Kids blog because a group of students started a petition to reverse a ban on playing with balls at recess in the winter. Students are allowed to run around and play, but they cannot [...]

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The bully who defined me

by phdinparenting on August 1, 2009

I was four years old. I had just started preschool. I was excited, interested, curious, I think. I knew a few kids in my class, the ones who lived on my street or whose parents were friends with my parents, but there were many new faces too. During the first few days of school the [...]

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We need bilingual schools

by phdinparenting on July 6, 2008

Here in Canada, we often hear that English Canadians do not make enough effort to learn French and French Canadians do not make enough effort to learn English. But I think there is more to it than their willingness or effort to learn the other language. I think that the problem begins with our segregated [...]