Further to the The Bulldog’s post reviewing the ranking of public schools in South Bayview, the CTV post linked below breaks out the better performing school across Toronto as a whole. It also contains comment by the Fraser Institute, which compiled the numbers about the performance of kids as a funtion of their family’s income. At Cottingham Public School on Birch Ave., which won the highest score of 10, family income is well in excess of $200,000 a year (as it is in most parts of South Bayview). But says the institute, at Langdon Public School in Fenelon Falls the pupils still achieved an 8.2 rating in a community where family average income is merely $19,000 a year. Remarkably good work. And flies in the face of a complaint from a group called People for Education which seems to say that the Fraser survey is elitist, (our word) measuring things like “university trained parents” and others metrics of affluence. CTV
