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The Simcoe Lions School was operated as a special elementary school for the mentally challenged by the Simcoe Lions Club from 1957 until the 1970s. Until its establishment, mentally challenged people were turned away from area schools by faculty who were unable to understand their needs. In its later days, children from this school were partially integrated with the North Public School kids for the afternoon. This school was located in Simcoe, Ontario, Canada. Graduates from this school attended Simcoe Composite School along with children from Doan's Hollow Public School. Funding for this school was provided primarily by the Lions Club and by the local association for the mentally retarded. Graduates from the Simcoe Lions School were disenfranchised until the year 1989 when the mentally challenged people got the right to vote.
Many great teachers and principals have inspired students to become members of the Norfolk Association for Community Living. Instead of relying on their parents or the government for income, they sell either sell concession stand food at local arena or work at the local McDonald's in order to earn money. In addition to this, some Simcoe Lions School alumni also learn new life skills every day of their lives at a group home rather than being stagnant in an institution where they simply learn nothing. Some members of the defunct Norfolk Federation of Women Teachers have served here as teachers and were willing to volunteer in an attempt to teach these "trainable retarded" children and allow them to graduate from elementary school.
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