Back
around 1990-2000, my children went to a great elementary
school called "Grant Alterntive". I t has now moved to a
rather typical surbaban building but at the time my kids were there it
was located at 2720 Richmond Road. The building and
beautiful mature trees are still there but the building is empty.
The old website that I created is still available at
http://grant.ncf.ca/index-old.html and it will give you an idea of what
a fun place it was.
My daughter was there the first year that the school opened as an
Alternative school and I attended the school coucil meetings regularly.
There was another parent there that was a high school physics
teacher and he and I would talk science. We decided that we
needed to augment the science resources in the school and so installed
IO in the library. Io was about the size of an 8 year-old and
had a disk drive slot for a mouth. We told the kids to put
science questions in his mouth and we would have an answer for them as
fast as possible. It was very
popular. I was getting everyone I could to help me answer the
questions but spent hours and hours myself. Of course, I
learned an awful lot too. Who was it that said "The best way
to learn something is to teach something".
When my kids graduated from Grant, IO was put on a top shelf and was no
longer answering questions. I kept all the original forms
written by the kids and some day my put them in a book. In
the mean time, I have converted some answers to HTML
There was even a question about IO. Read it here.
