John F. Kennedy High School (Montreal)

John F. Kennedy High School (French: École secondaire John F. Kennedy) is a public high school located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The school is operated by the English Montreal School Board. The current principal is Joseph Vitantinio; the Vice-principal is Sabrina Petrocco.

Prior to 1998 it was operated by the Montreal Catholic School Commission.^[1]

Academics

The academics are followed by the laws of the Ministry of Education, Recreation and Sports. If a students happens to fail either Math, English or French they would have to go to summer school if a students fails all they would have to repeat the school year. The mid-term exams take place in January and the final exams take place in June. They are three types of courses enriched, regular, and special ed (special ed is only for secondary one and two.) Enriched are for those who get above 75% the first half of the school year they learn academic in their level and the second half the level next. Regular are for students who learn academics in their own level throughout their whole school year. Special ed are for those with learning disabilities and those who get lower than a 65% average. In order for a student to graduate they need 54 credits. Students can work hard and get the credits in secondary three, four and five.

Exams

Exams are a part of academics and the both mid-term exam and final count as 30% of the grade the exams come from the English Montreal School Board for the secondary fives it comes from the Quebec government. By the new school year of 2011 the Ministre de l'education Sports et Loisirs du Quebec made a new report card they took out term four for the high school and the first and second term counted as 20% and the third counted as 60% at the end of the school year the teacher as to calculate all the marks and see if the child passed. The whole point of term exams are to see if the teacher taught well and everything they had to teach and if the student knows what he/she learned.

Athletics

John F. Kennedy High School has a soccer and basketball teams in the bantam (secondary 1-2), midget (secondary 2-3) and juvenille (secondary 4-5) divisions of the GMAA (Greater Montreal Area Athletics), for boys and girls. Except, for bantam girl teams. Their teams regularly compete with other schools in the Greater Montreal Athletics Association(GMAA).Their teams are called the JFK Knights. The school also has a juvenille boys (secondary 4-5) badminton team and since the beginning of the 2013-2014 academic school year, an ice hockey training camp. Every Tuesday, the players in the training camp have an early dismisal at 2:30 to leave to go to the local public arena for practice, Saint Michel Arena. Practice starts at 3:00 and ends at 4:30. The hockey camp is a division of the Ahunstic Braves. The training season ends in may. The camp is not part of the GMAA. The school also participates every year in April rt in the G.M.A.A halo race on top of Mount Royal. For the whole month of April, participants need 16 kilometers of training. ^[2]

Asbestos

On May 9, 2012, principal Joseph Marra discovered suspected asbestos fibers in the two ventilation rooms in the school's basement. The next day, Sante Publique du Quebec tested the fibers. The results were negative, but Marra closed the school for a week; students were relocated to Rosemount High School until cleanup was done. In July 2012, more fibers were found; this time, test results were positive. Students and staff are returning to the John F. Kennedy facility on May 25, 2013, after a year since the discovery of the asbestos fibers. The asbestos fibers struck a wide amount of municipal news and media. The cost of the clean up is 2.8 million dollars which sparked a lot of controversy at the E.M.S.B. Originally the cost was 1.1 million dollars.^[3]

References

External links

• John F. Kennedy High School Home Page