The Right School — called Jackman
Posted by Dalton48 on 14 Aug 2008 at 08:02 am | Tagged as: Toronto
I hope Toronto Life didn’t pay full freight to Philip Preville, whose cover story “PS, I Love You” (not yet posted online) adorns the magazine’s September “The Right School” issue. Here’s how the story is billed:
A handful of schools drive parents into a frenzy of status lust — and they’ll do anything to get their kids in. How Toronto developed a two-tier public education system.
And here’s what the story actually contains:
A few anecdotes about parents intent on, if not exactly desperate to, get their children into Jackman school, padded by a few fawning paragraphs about the quality of the donated items at the school’s silent auction. (Preville clearly doesn’t get out to many charity fundraisers.) I guess collecting some horror stories while shopping along the Danforth — Preville lives in Riverdale, according to his late, unlamented blog on torontolife.com — was easier than branching out to another neighbourhood or digging into whether all other less-demanded schools are inferior. It might have been interesting to look at whether this was a new or old phenomenon, or compare the situation here to other cities, or, you know, do something beyond polish up some rumours overheard at the Big Carrot.
I too am tired of the aphonic bleats of the Toronto Life staff who can’t seem to leave Riverdale when they want to complain about rich people. Recall the whining drivel of Don Gilmour in January 2003 when he declared (several years after anyone who follows real estate) that the “market [had] gone mad”.
Whatevs Toronto Life. Go to Leaside or Bloorwest or Downtown or Oakville and see the same damn thing. People with money and time put a lot of effort into their kids school.