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A completely useless school. Claiming it has two campuses is idiotic. Who cares? It is not of any note - please delete or we'll be having any school that has something "special" (and I use the term liberally) placed as an article. Hey, maybe Public School 109 should have an article especially since it has 18 portables. Two campuses is not an important enough fact warranting an article.
We've pretty much come to the conclusion that the girls discussed in the above thread are from Turner Fenton Secondary School.
Turner Fenton has developed a reputation within the Greater Toronto Area as an outpost of tyranny. The local law enforcement agencies were known to launch brutal crackdowns on dissent by acting as agents of the Turner regime. Peel Regional Police initiated a highly-skilled team of suspected former Israeli commandos to impose law and order on the anarchic school, and were subsequently retained as a permanent presence in the hallowed halls of both buildings; however, abuses of power were rampant. The force was known for its heavy-handed tactics and was rumored to have implemented a harsh series of checkpoints with a Soup Nazi-esque ‘no smiling’ attitude. In addition, they were suspected as being the ringleaders in the eventually failed bid – as it was rumored that the AV club was not willing to participate – to establish an electronic sign banner in the North Cafeteria that would broadcast pro-administration propaganda glorifying the leaders and streaming quotes by Mao, Stalin and Castro about the hypocrisy of capitalism and the illusion of human rights.
It was also suspected that one of the utility and maintenance rooms in the Southern building had, in actuality, been converted into a Soviet-style interrogation room to force confessions out of suspected insurgents and otherwise intimidate opponents into squealing. The team of elite commandos was widely known to overstep its boundaries and try to regulate inter-entity commerce between the school and the adjacent businesses, such as McDonald’s. The restaurant, in particular, was known as being the mouthpiece of the Turner administration and implemented a harsh system of segregation and discrimination against students. The repressive methods employed were generally believed to have initiated a domino effect on surrounding enterprises, whereby the local convenience store enacted an old medieval statute limiting the number of students simultaneously allowed in-store – effectively imposing virtual Apartheid.
The rough methods that the Administration and its agents utilized became a rallying cry for dissidents opposed to the near-Gulag that Turner Fenton became at the start of the 21st century, ultimately culminating in the school’s attempts to suppress opposition by dehumanizing and demeaning students by issuing Orwellian identification cards to be hung around the necks of students. Suddenly faced with the prospects of being branded as if they were cattle, the students collectivized their numerous instruments of resistance – including complaining, grumbling and murmuring – into a surprisingly ineffective confrontation that ultimately failed to wrest control from the administration.
As of this day, a tenuous peace treaty negotiated between the administration and a coalition of senior students from the business, law and biology streams -- and brokered by the so-called 'Group of 4' key stakeholders, consisting of Mayor Susan Fennell, Brampton Transit, the Sears Home Store, and the CUPE Local 1103 unit repairing Kennedy Road -- has been credited with maintaining relative tranquility, as neither the administration nor the students would like a return to pre-2003 hostilities. However, fractures in the student federation, including the exclusion of mathematics and arts students from the bargaining table, as well as the inability of the police to clamp down on the rumored bully-tax for North Cafeteria admission (extorted from weaker pupils by ruthless student militias formed along largely rival sectarian lines), has led many Brampton political analysts to conclude that it is only a matter of time before aggression resumes – a sobering prospect for alumni who negotiated the initial terms of cessation of hostilities.
The Turner administration’s latest conciliatory gesture towards students as an olive branch of cooperation, in the first step to correcting perceived historic injustices, has allegedly included the addition of another vending machine in the North Cafeteria. As of January 2006, the students were too busy – playing cards, passing notes, and stealing chalk – to consider the offer, set to expire at the end of the semester.
Was this ever documented in Turneround, which I'm told is now online-only, or any other outside resource, even a blog? If so, it would help prove this as legitimate. -- user:zanimum
WHAT? Did this actually happen?
Unfortunately, yeah, the administration guys were total a-holes about the whole thing. Students were scared -- a lot of my friends transferred out b/c of the sh--. So glad that at U of T, where I go now, we have appeal processes to deal with administration heavy-handedness. And, yeah, this was totally all over the Turner blogs when it shook down, and even documented in Turneround, it needs to get back in the main Wikipedia article so that history isn't repeated. And, yeah, Turneround is online-only at this point, at least, according to my buddies finishing off their last year, but apparently there's no archives and the site is down anyways. The Turneround articles about the controversy were really pro-admin, though, cause the student editors were pretty much stooges and lackeys who couldn't print a word without approval from teachers/principals, so I remember a bunch of students threw Turneround issues outside in the parking lot in protest, which was kinda stupid because they didn't really endear themselves to anyone by littering and just made it worse (some innocent people got suspended, too) but whatever. This article oughta be back in the main thing, after all, Wikipedia's one of the last true vestiges of free speech and rational discussion, so this story needs to be in the main article, despite the administration's attempt to suppress the truth.
I think the Christine McGee needs some clarification, as she obviously graduated before 1992, when the article3 says the school is founded. (and yes, i read the schools history)99.245.81.39 06:33, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
I remember the school displaying Christine McGee's photo in the display case across from the office. She went to J.A. Turner.
The title says it all, really. A lot of anonymous users from Rogers (99.x.x.x) have been adding irrelevant or low-quality information to the article. Ergosteur 06:13, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
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