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Vaughan Road Academy: Desperate Measures

Vaughan Road Academy Dept: Best high schools inspire desperate measures from parents, Feb. 6, according to The Star. It is a mixed-race, mixed-income neighbourhood rapidly gentrifying where shopkeepers know your name, neighbours sit on their porches, and kids play in the streets. Property values have more than doubled in the last decade. I couldn t afford my own house today and re: Best high schools inspire desperate measures from parents, Feb. 6 Reporter Louise Brown quotes a mother s perception that the Vaughan Road Academy neighbourhood is sketchy. As a resident of Vaughan-Oakwood since 2004 and teacher at Vaughan Road Academy since 1999, I am sick of this characterization. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.