The Scarborough Alternative Study Center ( SCAS , formerly Tabor Park Vocational School ) is an alternative and adult secondary school serving Scarborough, part of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It operates under the Toronto District School Board and was previously part of the pre-amalgamated council, the Board of Education of Scarborough prior to the merger. Originally at the Birchmount Park Collegiate Institute in 1977 as a re-entry program, the school opened in 1986 at 959 Midland Avenue and in 2010, the school is located on the former Midland Avenue Collegiate Institute campus sharing with fellow schools, South Central Mid-East Alternative Centers and Caring and Safe Schools Program Alternative Area C.
SCAS also operates a satellite campus at 2740 Lawrence Avenue East at the David and Mary Thomson Collegiate Institute site for the Carpentry program.
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History
Beginner
The Re-entry program in Scarborough began in November 1977 at the Birchmount Park Collegiate Institute with one teacher and fifteen students. Imagining is a program that will meet the needs of dropouts or disadvantaged students who want to go back to school; the program has grown and turned into an adult program. In 1985, the program featured 9.33 teachers and 200 students.
In 1980, the Co-Op Re-entry Program was established. The program featured components in schools with work experience placement and grew from two original teachers and 35 students to 5 teachers and 170 students in 1986.
Formerly known as Tabor Park Vocational School, the Re-entry Program was united and expanded when the Scarborough Center for Alternative Studies originally opened on 2 September 1986 at 959 Midland Avenue operated by the Scarborough Education Board with 360 adults. At Tabor Park, the agency operating at SCAS includes a room registration service called Scarborough Housing Assistance: Placement and Education for Singles (FORM), Metro Youth Services counseling service, NYAD operated nursery facility (Not Your Average Day Care) , and the Council's Community Liaison Office.
Relocation
In May 1988, SBE plans to move SCAS to a new facility. The Tabor Park campus is one of seven high schools on the Metro given to the Metropolitan Separate School Board (now the Council of Catholic District Schools of Canada), so the Scarborough board has to vacate it along with the user group. The school board board is considered to close one of the following college schools to make room for the new SCAS: Winston Churchill, Midland, Wexford, W.A. Porter, and David and Mary Thomson. In November 1988, the school had 850 adult students. Parents at Donwood Park protest against one of the relocation plans for SCAS.
Meanwhile, SBE moved the class as a method to quickly locate a temporary location before the Tabor Park property was transferred to MSSB on July 1, 1989. To save costs, 28 classes were transferred to Highbrook Senior Public School previously at 39 Highbrook Crescent, Thomson Collegiate receiving 20 classes in 2740 Lawrence Avenue East (along with the Carpentry program) and moved the remaining six to a commercial site in an area of ​​54 classes.
The original SCAS campus reopened and became known as Jean Vanier Catholic Secondary School in September 1989. The need for a new adult school led to a 'unique partnership' between SBE and Centennial College, in 1992, to establish a new campus for SCAS (initially the Career Planning Center Scarborough) at 939 Progress Avenue which opened in September 1994. Previous programs have been in temporary locations after the loss of Tabor Park.
After 16 years, in September 2010, the school moved to 720 Midland Avenue, the venue of the Midland Avenue Collegiate Institute as Centennial expanded the teaching space by acquiring the final site. The center is currently sharing the Midland building with the South Central Alternative Centers and Care and Care School programs.
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Overview
Like all TDSB adult learning centers, it has two special programs, EdVance and Adult.
Under 21 Program, EdVance is for students between the ages of 18 and 20 who feel the world is passing them because they have stopped their formal education before earning a high school diploma. Supported in a nurturing environment, there is an emphasis on re-entry to school. Students will have the opportunity to build skills for work programs, lectures or internships. EdVance is for serious students finishing high school. This program offers the fastest route to get OSSD. This program was previously known as the Retention Program.
Campus
Since the school is located at the Midland Avenue Collegiate Institute facility in 2010, SCAS currently occupies parts of the first floor, mostly on the second floor, and all three floors. The school brings many features of a modernist design consisting of five staircases, a circular cafeteria, a two-story library with two seminar rooms, wide guidance area, larger atrium, theater with over 900 seats, 33 academic classrooms, two home economy rooms, a large lecture hall, four performing arts spaces for music/dance/drama, two visual arts spaces, five science labs, three gamnasas with larger ones that can be partitioned into two small games with SCAS that occupy a larger game, and an athletic field great as the track and football/football track with attached hill. The swimming pool is partly rented out.
Historically, the school was attached to a daycare center, not your average daily care, and continues to this day.
When the Progress Campus is built on the ground of Centennial College, the school is built in a triangular configuration and students will get lunch from the campus canteen. Previously, SCAS had a lunch service at the Tabor Park campus.
Other SCAS affiliated schools
Scarborough 1 Alternative Education
Alternative Scarborough Education 1 ( ASE 1 ) is an alternative school originally affiliated with SCAS. Founded in 1975, the school shares space with St. Andrew's Public School on the second floor.
- Founded : 1975
- Address : c/o St. Andrew's Public School - 60 Brimorton Drive, Bendale, Toronto, Ontario M1P 3Z1, Canada
- School ID : 4110/892475
- Superintendent : John Chasty (ER14)
- Trustee Area : David Smith (Ward 19)
- Headmaster : Denis Lopes
- Vice Principal Elizabeth Mayhew, Emanuel Moura
- Value : 11-12
- Website : http://aseone.ca/moodle
Delphi Secondary Alternative School
Delphi Secondary Alternative School , formerly known as Alternative Scarborough Education 2 is an alternative school located on the second floor of the Chartland Junior Public School building. The school was founded in 1981 and in 2006, it was renamed Delphi
- Founded : 1981
- Address : c/o Chartland Junior School - 109 Chartland South Boulevard, Agincourt, Toronto, Ontario M1S 2R7, Canada
- School ID : 4109/892483
- Superintendent : Kathleen Garner
- Trustee Area : TBD
- Headmaster : Denis Lopes
- Vice Principal Elizabeth Mayhew, Emanuel Moura
- Value : 9-12
- Website : schoolweb.tdsb.on.ca/delphi/
Parkview Alternative School
Parkview Alternative School was originally founded in the 1990s as a SCAS-branded campus known as SCAS Overflow in the former Highbrook Senior Public School building that provides alternative education for drop-out children. In 2010, the school was renamed to Overflow Center and moved to Terraview Learning Center building in Pharmacy Avenue/401 area. In 2014, it adopted its current name.
- Address : c/o Terraview Learning Center - 1641 Pharmacy Avenue, Maryvale, Toronto, Ontario M1R 2L4, Canada
- School ID : 4176/939480
- Superintendent : Tracy Hayhurst (ER15)
- Trustee Area : Manna Wong (Ward 20)
- Headmaster : Denis Lopes
- Vice Principal Elizabeth Mayhew, Emanuel Moura
- Value : 9-10
See also
- List of secondary schools in Ontario
- Midland Avenue Collegiate Institute
- Jean Vanier Catholic Secondary School
References
External links
- Scarborough Alternative Study Center
- TDSB Profile (EdVance)
- TDSB Profile (Adult)
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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