Sir Wilfrid Laurier Secondary School or Laurier is a high school located at 450 Millbank Drive in the south east end of London, Ontario, Canada. The school was built in the school year of 1966-1967 and is in the Thames Valley District School Board. The school has around 1164 students and 80 teachers. Its named after the Canadian prime minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier. Wilfrid Laurier is well known for his policies of conciliation, nation building, and compromises between French and English Canada. The school colours are green and blue. It is widely known as being one of the only French immersion high schools in the area. It also provides English courses for students who are not in the French immersion program.
Read more about Sir Wilfrid Laurier Secondary School: Student Council, See Also
Famous quotes containing the words sir, secondary and/or school:
“When Sir Robert Walpole was dying, he told Ranby his surgeon that he desired his body might be opened. Ranby acting great horror cried, “Good God, my Lord, don’t talk of that!” “Nay,” said Sir Robert, “it will not be till I am dead, and that I shall not feel it—nor you neither.””
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“Cloud-clown, blue painter, sun as horn,
Hill-scholar, man that never is,
The bad-bespoken lacker,
Ancestor of Narcissus, prince
Of the secondary men. There are no rocks
And stones, only this imager.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that works through unwritten agreements between real estate dealers, school officials, and local politicians.”
—Shirley Chisholm (b. 1924)