News and Events at Island Oak High School

Encorp Recycling Program

Each year Island Oak enters into the annual recycling contest, which has been won 4 times and given us second place 3 times. We gather recyclable containers to return to the bottle depot for cash and credit in the contest. We gather these containers in three main ways:

1. we have bottle drives and go out and collect them in the community.

2. People bring them in to us and leave them at the school.

3. People take their own containers into the bottle depot, get the return-it money and a receipt, and then bring the receipt to Island Oak.

We are happy to have Sarah Cabena taking in the receipts and entering them into the computer for the contest. This is a great help as long-time supporter, Dian Dous has moved on to greener pastures after doing this for so many years.

So, if you have bottles, consider bringing them into the school or taking them into the Return-It Centre and bring us the receipt after you collect. Thanks!

Has Ontario taught its high-school students not to think? (And BC schools are ranked lower than Ontario’s.)

Elementary and high schools spend so much time on the content-laden curriculum that students are unprepared for the analytic and conceptual thinking they’ll need at university:

We continuously get feedback from university professors that Waldorf students are really appreciated because they can think. Waldorf students give out more interesting and thoughtful content, effort, and questions than the students from most other systems, particularly the public systems.

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