Excerpt from Biographies of Individual Schools Under the Toronto Board of Education, Vol. 2: Park School The character of the neighborhood of Park School has changed greatly in the past half century. Many parts of it are now extremely congested through the building of small dwellings very close to one another, the doubling up of families in houses built for one family, and the building of houses on lanes and in the rears of lots. The present membership of the school indicates that the district which the school serves is prevailingly Canadian and British in population, although the proportion of foreign-born residents is increasing and is con sidera-bly larger than it was twenty-five years ago. The body of this report contains statistical material bearing on racial origins. An inspection of the district makes it evident that a considerable number of boys and girls attending the school would be classed by social workers as under-privileged. These children come of excellent stock and need only a desirable environment to make them extremely valuable citizens of the coming Toronto. Every school in Toronto should be an Opportunity school, but there is no centre where such a school would return a better dividend than the Park School district. The proposal, abandoned after careful inquiry and full discussion, to make the old Park School building the home of such a school would, as pointed out'in the body of this report, have had very undesirable consequences to the children attending the existing school. A comparatively small expenditure would provide, within the limits of the present building and without decreasing its school capacity, a good auditorium, an excellent gymnasium and special rooms for the teaching of history, geography and also various manual arts not now provided for, and would enable the staff of the school to make it a real opportunity school, not only for the children but for the adult com munity which it should serve. This would involve an increase in the' length of the daily school sessions, but not necessarily in the number of school hours per child. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.