Anderson CVI

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Anderson Collegiate Vocational Institute is located in Whitby, Ontario within the Durham District School Board. Established in 1960, the school has students in grades 9–12 and offers a wide range of academic and extracurricular activities. Anderson is the only high school in Whitby that offers the gifted program, providing an enriched and accelerated curriculum for students in specific courses from grades 9–11. Anderson's feeder elementary schools are Bellwood Public School, C. E. Broughton Public School, Dr. Robert Thornton Public School, Pringle Creek Public School, and Jack Miner Public School .In 2007, then Principal John Morrison was named one of Canada's Outstanding Principals.Several organizations within the school have worked on a wide variety of social and humanitarian issues in the school and in the community. Committees around the school have worked on Remembrance Day assemblies, Black History Month assemblies, and Amnesty International efforts. As well, guest speakers like Eva Olsson, a Holocaust survivor; Roméo Dallaire, a former commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda; and James Bartleman, then Lieutenant Governor of Ontario have been invited to speak at the school.