A sign from above…
Want further proof that big-box education factories may not be delivering what they promise?
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Please, give us proof! Oh Wholly one! Sit down here and give us your revelation of things that have come to past. We seek miracles on the justification of our existence, the transubstantial a priori truth of life in this city as you see it! Reveal! Oh Wholly one!
Even better than the sign is the proliferation of the land yachts in the parking lot. Hey, I know the roads in Windsor are bad, but come on!
Sometimes I wonder if gas prices are karma coming full circle.
Could it have been a play on words perhaps? Grad as in graduation and mixing it with congratulations? I don’t know but Windsor does have a very poor literacy rate so anything is possible.
No, I’ve seen “congratulations” misspelled so many times that it would be a misplaced hope that it was a clever play on words.
There is “grad” in congradulations, shouldn’t it follow that the next word is “Gratuates” I wonder how many will be staying in Windsor to go to university or college or will most just head out to somewhere else! Summer employment, let alone full employment is virtually impossible when these kids are competing with older adults looking for work! I wish the grads well, I will save the ulations for later.
For what it’s worth, I chose to stay in Windsor for University, and I don’t really regret my choice. What I somewhat regret is my attachment for this city and area–there are scarce few jobs in South-Western Ontario. One has to look further to Toronto.
So as a result, I make the sacrifice to work in Michigan in my field while I bide my time, hoping that something comes up on the Canadian side.
Oh! The factory schools in the burbs are only teaching the kids one thing that they have to get up early and commute by car or bus to get to school much like there parents but their parents can’t take the bus because there is no public transportation in the burbs! Can’t walk to school and can’t walk to work!
If any of you have had the pleasure of entering the halls of Holy Cross elementary … you would be blown away by the quality of amneties in the building … many of which are quite uncommon in elementary schools across Ontario … this is a first class school and there is nothing wrong with that
however … for fun, map the locations of Catholic schools in Windsor and you will find that very few are within an area that can be very loosely described as the core ( translation Prince Road to Walker bounded by Tecumseh and the River ) I think only two schools exist, maybe three … St.Johns, St.Francis (slated to be closed in approx 1yr.) Immaculate Conception … others? anyone help me here?
The point I’m trying to make … wonderful, amazing state of the art brand new schools are being built in suburban areas (translation … wealthier, educated, tax paying voters ) and the core areas are abandoned or are left with decaying inefficient structures … given the choice to raise your family, many see the advantages of suburban schools … I do appreciate Shannon Porcellini having an enlightened vision of community … maybe I should reiterate a point made several days ago … we need leaders to make tough decisions and show foresight about where to invest dollars … not just go after the path of least resistance …
you know what, I need to do more than just verbalize this … I’m going to call my trustee and let them know my view … maybe others can do the same.
The ca. 1930 St. Bernard school on Meldrum deserves honarable mention, although it is not “core” by your definition, it definitely serves an established area of Windsor’s “interior”. But yes Willy, I do agree in principle with what you are saying and I never took note of that trend in the Catholic schools before… but you are right about them being conspicuous in their absense from the core. I attended St. Clare in the 70s, which I believe has been closed for a little under ten years now. St. Genevieve, also long gone. Yet I can rattle off a half dozen public schools in my area without even looking at a map or directory. There are three within walking distance alone! If Dougall and Victoria schools were under the auspices of the Catholic board, one of them would probably be closed by now as well, to help finance building a Superschool in sprawlville. If Windsor’s interior is on the cusp of a rebirth, that is something that will bite the seperate board in the behind in the not so distant future.
Just the usual play on the word congratulations.
That has been used on a lot of signage and not just schools.