Back in June, the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) announced it planned to transfer beloved principal Barry Sketchley out of Rosedale Heights School of the Arts, which he founded 33 years ago.
This was unusual because Sketchley had already announced he would retire next year. All the TDSB had to do was to let Sketchley serve his final year at Rosedale Heights, but instead, it decided to forcibly transfer him. Not surprisingly, parents and students mobilized against this transfer. Students walked out of classes in protest while parents lobbied TDSB trustees in an attempt to persuade them to reverse the transfer. Unfortunately, all this fell on deaf ears.
