John F. Kennedy High School (french: École secondaire John F. Kennedy) is a public
high school
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located in
Montreal
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,
Quebec
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, Canada. The school is operated by the
English Montreal School Board
The English Montreal School Board (EMSB, french: Commission scolaire English-Montréal – CSEM) is one of five public school boards on the island of Montreal.
At 92.4 percent, the English Montreal School Board has the highest rate of students wh ...
.
Until 1998, it was operated by the
Montreal Catholic School Commission
The Montreal Catholic School Commission (Commission des écoles catholiques de Montréal, CECM) was a Roman Catholic school district in Montreal, Quebec, Canada which operated both French-language and English-language schools. It was the largest s ...
.
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(English). Montreal Catholic School Commission
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. January 20, 1998. Retrieved on August 4, 2016.
Athletics
John F. Kennedy High School has soccer and basketball teams in the bantam (secondary 1-2), midget (secondary 2-3), and juvenile (secondary 4-5) divisions of the GMAA (Greater Montreal Area Athletics), for boys and girls except for bantam girl teams. Their teams regularly compete with other schools in the
Greater Montreal Athletics Association
The Greater Montreal Athletics Association (GMAA) is an inter-mural sporting league in the Greater Montreal Area. It arranges inter-school sports events.
Fall Division 1 Championships Boys Touch Football
Golf
Soccer
Volleyball
Winter Divis ...
(GMAA). The teams are the JFK Knights. The school also has a juvenile boys (secondary 4-5) badminton team and, since the beginning of the 2013–2014 academic school year, an ice hockey training camp. Every Tuesday, players in the training camp have an early dismissal at 2:30 to leave to go to the local public arena for practice ay
Saint Michel Arena. Practice starts at 3:00 and ends at 4:30. The hockey camp is a division of the
Ahunstic Braves. The training season ends in may. The camp is not part of the GMAA. The school also participates every year in April in the GMAA halo race on top of
Mount Royal
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. For the whole month of April, participants need 16 kilometers of training.
Asbestos
On May 9, 2012, principal Joseph Marra discovered suspected
asbestos fibres in the two ventilation rooms in the school's basement. The next day, the fibres were tested, and the results were negative, but Marra closed the school for a week. Students were relocated to
Rosemount High School
Rosemount High School is a public four-year high school in Rosemount, Minnesota, United States, founded in 1918. The school is one of four four-year high schools in Independent School District 196 (Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School District). T ...
until the cleanup had been completed. In July 2012, more fibres were found, and this time, test results were positive. Students and staff returned to the John F. Kennedy facility on May 25, 2013, after a year since the discovery of the asbestos fibres. They made the
municipal
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
news and media. The cost of the clean up is 2.8 million dollars, which sparked a lot of controversy at the school board. Originally, the cost was supposed to be 1.1 million dollars.
See also
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List of buildings and monuments honoring presidents of the United States in other countries
References
External links
John F. Kennedy High School
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High schools in Montreal
English-language schools in Quebec
English Montreal School Board