"At my old high school, over a third of last year's Grade 12 graduating class made the Ontario Scholar list. Admittedly, this school is a good school in an educated area of town, but 33 per cent still seems a trifle high, certainly higher than the Grade 13 figures for my day. Suspicious, I poked around on the Internet, and found not just schools but entire school boards boasting of similar figures. The most striking example was the Toronto board, which boasted on its website recently of a 40-per-cent rate!"

CAMERON WYBROW, 2007 in the G&M

Worth reading:

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