Don Bosco Catholic Secondary School
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| Don Bosco Catholic Secondary School | |
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Reason, Religion, and Kindness
Crescamus in Christum Let us Grow in Christ
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| 2 St. Andrew's Blvd Kingsview Village, Etobicoke, Ontario, M9R 1V8 Canada |
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| School type | Catholic High school |
| Founded | 1978 |
| School board | Toronto Catholic District School Board |
| Superintendent | Loretta Notten Area 1 |
| Area trustee | Joseph Martino Ward 1 |
| School number | 525 / 703184 |
| Principal | Michael Rossetti |
| Grades | 10-12 |
| Enrollment | 432 (2015-16) |
| Language | English |
| Colour(s) | Green and Gold |
| Team name | Bosco Eagles |
| Parish | Transfiguration |
| Specialist High Skills Major | Hospitality & Tourism Non-Profit |
| Program Focus | Broad-based Technology Gifted Advanced Placement Global Education Self-Directed Learning |
| Website | www |
Don Bosco Catholic Secondary School (also called Don Bosco, Don Bosco CSS, DBCSS, Don Bosco Toronto, or simply Bosco), housed in the former Keiller Mackay Collegiate Institute building, is a Catholic secondary school in Etobicoke in the city of Toronto, Ontario and is located north of the intersection of Islington Avenue and Dixon Road. The school is named after Saint John Bosco since 1978.
The school is notorious for its involvement with former Mayor of Toronto Rob Ford who smoked crack cocaine while coaching the school's football team.
In 2014, Don Bosco adopted a Self-Directed Learning program, similar to that of Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School in Scarborough, becoming only the second such school in the GTA and third in Ontario to do so. The school as since disbanded this method and returned to the regular class system.
Sports
In the school's inaugural year, it took the midget girl's relay title in a competition.[1]
Football program
The head coach of the school's football program, from 2002 to 2013, was Rob Ford, (affectionately known as "The F-150" by the school), the Mayor of Toronto since 2010. Ford had previously been a coach at Newtonbrook Secondary School, until a 2001 confrontation with a student.[2] The Canadian Taxpayers Federation lodged criticism against Ford for using city resources for the program. Two of Ford's summer football teams list two of Ford's city-paid special assistants as contacts, providing the numbers for their city-owned cellphones. Sources claimed Ford used a city car to ferry players to games and practices.[3] Ford skipped 5 1/2 hours of a City executive committee meeting to attend a "pre-season jamboree" with his team, not telling his council allies.[4]
Ford talked to Sun News Network about the program, how many students "come from gangs" and "broken homes", and without football would have "no reason to go to school". Some Don Bosco school staff sent an anonymous group letter to senior Catholic school board officials, decrying Ford's comments about the school to Sun News, calling them "no reflection of the real" school. The board launched an investigation about the comments.[5] At a parent meeting, some attendees expressed concern that the school is too often called "Rob Ford's".[6] In May 2013, the Toronto Star saw video of Ford calling the students "just f---ing minorities"; the school board refused to comment, having not seen the video.[7] On May 22, the Toronto Catholic District School Board dismissed Ford from the coaching position.[8]
One-time player Anthony Smith was murdered March 28, 2013. A photo of Smith with Ford was widely used as illustration during reportage of the alleged drug video. In June 2013, police conducted raids as part of Project Traveller; murder charges in this case are expected.[9] Later, Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair confirmed the existence of the video on October 31, 2013.[10]
See also
References
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