Dedicated staff, keen students equal success
By ROGER BELGRAVE
Special to Focus
If academic perfection is a rare achievement, no one has mentioned that to students at Brampton’s Turner Fenton Secondary School.
This spring, the school graduated the top achievers among Peel District School Board’s 3,955 Ontario Scholars this year. To be recognized as an Ontario Scholar, Grade 12 students must have an average of 80 per cent or higher in six subjects.
Himanshu Gupta, Priya Gupta, Jeet Mehta and Prachi Singh, all students in Turner Fenton’s International Baccalaureate (IB) Program, earned 100 per cent averages.
The IB program is a demanding pre-university course of study designed for highly motivated high school students. The program is supposed to challenge students beyond traditional secondary school curriculum and experiences. A diploma can provide students access to universities all over the world.
Students in Turner Fenton’s program are regularly among the board’s top Ontario Scholars. This year, there were 182 Grade 12 IB program graduates at Turner Fenton and 173 were Ontario Scholars.
Last year two students from the Brampton-based IB program also earned 100 per cent averages. The board’s top scholar honours in 2010 and 2009 also belonged to “perfect” academic students in the Turner Fenton IB program.
“It’s the teachers at the school that make it what it is, along with the kids,” said Principal Richard Rozario. “You put that combination together— a very dedicated staff together with very keen students, it works out very nicely.”
The high school program is one of two in the Peel board. Turner Fenton’s program draws students from all over Brampton and Caledon.
— Metroland News Service