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The Minister of Education and Training, David Johnson, announced the new Ontario high school diploma requirements in January 1998. With the elimination of grade thirteen, or Ontario academic Credits, it was foreseeable there would be changes to the requirements ....

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.... from which to choose. Students will Desmarais 2 gain insight to certain occupations; students will gain exposer to other groups; students will gain self confidence. Students will gain and so will the community. Nevertheless, the "community involvement activities" requirement does present questions that the Ministry of Education has yet to address. The first question: Why did the Ministry feel that making community involvement mandatory was necessary? One possible answer is economics. With budget cuts to the health system and education system, having students volunteer in these institutions will alleviate some of the cutbacks. Students who v ....