North Toronto Collegiate In The News

It is easy to ask for a "single teacher to volunteer", but football is not an easy sport to coach. It takes a teacher with an interest in the sport. It is a larger team than most sports with a huge amount of equipment. It is a more dangerous sport with more risk and responsibility for any coach/staff supervisor. There are no lack of volunteer coaches, but the staff advisor/coach must take responsibility for the volunteer coaches. The lack of field at North Toronto during our construction also means that there is a 10 minute walk to and from the local park. In case of an emergency, I would hate to be the only staff member present at practice. I have watched the football team practice in the past - they start everyday immediately afterschool and go until after 5pm when I left - they are watching game footage at lunch - they are in the weight room before school. Is this a volunteer position for a "single teacher" ?

The school's athletic program has been underfire lately - they fought to get a pool in the new building and failed (there is a link ready to go in the plans if a pool were to be built)- they fought to retain a proper floor for the new gym and are still trying to get artificial turf for the new field - they are battling the City to keep their promise to use the local park for gym programs and practices - they battled to keep the pool for our swim team and gym programs and now are puzzled by the unstaffed (thus unusable) but heated pool - they have increased enrollment in gym classes but decreasing facilities and fewer teachers (in the boys program, where four sat, now sit two).