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“I’m bracing for a storm.” Some Toronto-area teachers fear another year of tumult and safety concerns

9/6/2023

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By Ben Mussett Staff Reporter
Sunday, September 3, 2023
6 min to read
Article was updated Sep 3, 2023

While students held up cellphones to capture the fight on video, the teacher managed to pull the two boys apart.
If she hadn’t stopped them, “his skull would have been cracked open,” reasoned the teacher, who works at a secondary school in Etobicoke. The Star has withheld her name to protect her from potential repercussions for speaking out.
Later in the year, another brawl erupted in her classroom. But this time, the teacher couldn’t break it up. Caught in the middle of flying fists, she took a blow to the head. “I was screaming at the top of my lungs,” she said. “Thank goodness the hall monitor was within earshot.”...

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    Al Bernstein

    Al works in film/tv and the theatre in New York, Toronto, and Los Angeles some highlights include: the award-winning short film Walled IN (written & produced by Al), Workin’ Moms, The Umbrella Academy, The Novice, Nikita, How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days, Showtime’s Street Time, Off Broadway: The Interrogation, Will (written by Al),  2013 Winner! LA Drama Critics Awards for Best Production, Director, Adaptation, CYRANO (World Premiere, DeafWest/Fountain Theatre), 2011 Ovation & LA Weekly Award winning Best Musical, Best Musical Director, Best Director, HOBOKEN TO HOLLYWOOD, The Sunshine Boys (with Hal Linden and Allan Miller) plus, many more. Today, Al is a finalist at the Actors Studio and works as an actor, writer, filmmaker and acting professor in Toronto. 

    His award-winning short film Walled IN about mental health in our youth is being made into a feature film and a stage play. Exciting times ahead. 
     

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