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Etobicoke School Of The Arts: Scarborough Students

Dance Shoes Dept: Their competitors wore costumes, dance shoes and a look of confidence that the Scarborough students just couldn t muster. Not then, according to The Star. Heading into the event, the long-established Etobicoke School of the Arts was the favourite to win. ESA is the best-known of Toronto s arts-based high schools prestigious, affluent, always the big attention-getter. Its show choir, SPLASH, has been featured on TV and at venues across the city and the kids from Wexford Collegiate showed up in $2 T-shirts. The school didn t have money for much else. It was the first-ever Show Choir Canada National Championships, a competition spawned by what else? Glee , the hit television show that has made it cool to be a singing, dancing, show-choir kid. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.