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Laurier Macdonald High School (traditionally abbreviated as "LMAC", but occasionally as "LMHS") is an English-language public school in the east end of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The school is named for Sir John A. Macdonald, the first Prime Minister of Canada and a Father of Confederation and Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the first French-Canadian Prime Minister of Canada. Formerly part of ''La Commission Scolaire Jérôme-Le Royer'', the school has been part of the English Montreal School Board since 1998. Both its male and female sports teams compete as the Rams. Enrollment is slightly over 800 students in Secondary III, IV and V. Luigi Santamaria is the current principal of Laurier Macdonald High School. Nicholas Romano and Miranda Serecchia are the two Vice Principals. The school has two full-time guidance counselors and a nurse. The school colours are orange and black. Traditional uniform colors are white and grey. The motto is ''Finis Coronat Opus'' (Latin for "The end crowns the work"). ==History== Laurier Macdonald opened in September 1969 without a building. The new school was to serve the English-speaking Catholic population of the City of Saint-Léonard. While an older building at 5750 Metropolitan Autoroute (A-40) originally built as a factory was being converted into a high school, the Commission Scolaire Jérôme-Le Royer rented classrooms at a nearby Protestant school (Dunton High School) so that students could attend classes during the late afternoon and early evening. This arrangement ended in early 1970 when the Metropolitan Autoroute facility was ready. Within a few years, however, the old building's limitations were judged to be too serious, in spite of the renovations, and the school board began discussing the construction of a new building in earnest. The changing political climate in the province proved to be a problem, however. The Parti Québécois government had declared a moratorium on the construction of English schools shortly after its accession to power in the fall of 1976. A student strike was organized in the month of November 1973 led by a rebellious student Frank Fazzari brought the attention to all, the plight of treatment of all English speaking schools in the eastern part of Montreal. The strike by students was the answer to the school being neglected by the Jerome le Royer School Board. An overpopulated school with the capacity of 800 students was being attended by 1200 students. The school was in complete disarray with one janitor to maintain the facilities, with no washroom facilities operational, doors with no locks, holes in cinder block walls, shortage of classrooms, and unsanitary conditions. Needless to say the facilities were not the ideal setting for teachers and students vying for the ultimate goal of a proper education. The walkout was well documented in the English media along with the French media . A front page article in the now defunct Montreal Star depicted the story of neglect with a picture of Frank Fazzari holding up one broken sink in the washroom as a symbol of defiance towards the neglect of English speaking students had to endure. As this was happening, the Jerome Le Royer School Board had just completed, in 1969, the most advanced comprehensive French speaking high school on the territory of St. Leonard, Antoine de St. Exupery, while Laurier Macdonald was nothing more than a school in rented facilities. This was much to the dismay of the population of St. Leonard's English speaking parents and students. The only positive benefit of the new Antoine de St. Exupery French high school was that the building formerly used to house French speaking students was liberated. The Aimé Renaud building (also a rented building on Metropolitan) became a junior English High School to feed Laurier Macdonald. This greatly alleviated the overcrowding at Laurier Macdonald. Aime Renaud High School was used as a junior high for Secondary I and II while Laurier Macdonald was used for Secondary III, IV and V. The media pressure and exposure prompted a quick reaction from the school board with a meeting with the Student council who presented a petition on behalf of the students with the demands that their school be equipped with the maintenance and the proper equipment to operate a school burdened by overpopulation . The boards reaction was a temporary closing of the school for one week and much to the dismay of all the members at the school board, they managed to repair, paint and fix all the anomalies. in the school. the media was invited to see all the repairs. This spurned the quest to build a school that would match the Comprehensive high school on the French speaking community. It is the belief of many that attended the first years at the Metropolitan facilities that their determination was to be the voice of defiance that led to the awakening of the necessity for better school facilities. A debt of gratitude is owed to Joseph Lalla for directing the students on the eve of the strike with the use of his political savviness and knowledge of using the media as a propaganda tool and the use of his telephone in his office to contact the media. The School Board then decided to extend a small elementary school, École Sir George-Étienne-Cartier, at the corner of Jean-Talon and Viau streets. The project would not have been approved by the provincial Department of Education had it been presented otherwise. The new (and current building) opened for the 1983-4 school year. Roussin Academy in Pointe-aux-Trembles was closed and the students were transferred to the new Laurier Macdonald for the 1983-4 school year. Laurier Macdonald was a comprehensive high school from 1983 (or in French, ''école polyvalente'') until that distinction was abolished provincially in the early 1990s. These schools offered high school students the possibility of vocational training in the last cycle of secondary education. Today, the school is the only remaining English-language senior high school on the island of Montreal, serving only Secondary III, IV and V students. It has been non-confessional since the school board reorganization of 1998. Previously, public schools in the province of Quebec had been organized along confessional lines (Protestant or Catholic) instead of linguistic lines (English or French). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Laurier Macdonald High School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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