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The best days of our lives School days are often romanticized as a time of imagination, discovery
and development. Indeed, the classrooms and schoolyards of Canada continue
to occupy the imaginations of many of our writers, playwrights and actors.
But are Canada's students enjoying their school experiences as much
as we're often led to believe? Surveys certainly suggest that many
do. In the mid-1990s, a survey of 10- and 11-year-old students revealed
that 69% liked school quite a bit or very much, 78% said they were doing
well, and practically all believed it was important to do well in
school. Teachers attached high expectations to our students, predicting
that over half would eventually graduate from a postsecondary institution—a
quarter from a college, a business school or a CEGEP institution, and
over a third from university.
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