Norfolk Board of Education
| Norfolk Board of Education | |
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Simcoe, Ontario Nixon, Delhi, Port Dover, Langton, Walsh, Simcoe, Lynedoch, St. Williams Canada |
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| Coordinates | 42°47′43″N 80°18′31″W / 42.795212°N 80.308728°WCoordinates: 42°47′43″N 80°18′31″W / 42.795212°N 80.308728°W |
| District information | |
| Chair of the board | Leon DeWaele |
| Schools | 21 |
| District ID | NBE |
| Students and staff | |
| Students | 10000+ |
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| Website | www |
The Norfolk Board of Education (NBE) is a former school district in Norfolk County, Ontario, which merged into the Grand Erie District School Board (known as English-language Public District School Board No. 23 until the 1999-2000 school year).
This defunct school board building is located in the hamlet of Hillcrest, Ontario, Canada on 173 Hillcrest Road South. Government cutbacks eventually forced the school board to amalgamate with the Haldimand Board of Education and the Brant District Board of Education in 1996.
* signifies that the school is still active
Doan's Hollow Public School is a defunct public elementary school that existed from the early 20th century until circa 1980. Due to its status as one of the first two schools that taught the mentally retarded, it was considered to be a "pioneer school" for the disabled population of Norfolk County. Special education programs were eventually introduced to the other elementary schools in Norfolk County that allowed children to attend schools that were closer to their homes. Doan's Hollow Public School was a feeder school to Simcoe Composite School during its years of operation although it also shared close proximity to Port Dover Composite School (when it first opened in 1962).
Until the other schools were green-lighted to obtain special education programs from the Ontario government, this school and the Simcoe Lions School in Simcoe to the north were the only schools that taught people with special needs. All the other schools would turn away the mentally challenged; parents were forced to either have the child become institutionalized, attempt to home-school their child, or send him/her to Doan's Hollow for his/her basic educational needs. However, even Doan's Hollow Public School and the Simcoe Lions School were forced to turn away people with Down syndrome and epilepsy in the early years of the special education pilot program. Medical research at that time had declared them to be untrainable and this theory would not be reversed until sometime after the 1970s.
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