On this page...Answers to some of the anonymous questions
that are
sent to BCI.
(sometimes, neither are the answers.))
Q. When do report cards get sent out? I've looked everywhere I can think of that would have the answer to that
question and I have yet to stumble upon an answer. Thanks! (June 27)
A. The report card elves (teachers) have been busy marking exams and summatives. Marks are being entetred into
the sytem today (June 27) and tomorrow (June 28) and then will be checked on the 29 and 30th to make sure
everything is correct. July 1 is a Holiday, so it seems that the plan is to print and mail next week. When it's a
sure thing we'll post a message on the front page. (Good thing the posties are back at work.)
Q. I EXSTREMLY DISLIKE SOME OF THE ISSUES IN OUR SCHOOL I try to make a difference and no one
listens what do I do ? (June 25)
A. I understand completely, we often feel that we have no power to change or affect the system. If you have a
problem with a class/teacher or coach speak with them. If that is a problem, speak with a vice principal or
contact the school council chair. If the issue is one with students, attend student council meetings, run for
council president, join the Activism or Key club, both are very active and involved in the community. Just
remember, not everyone will have the same opinion as you, do not lose your temper, treat people as you would
like to be treated. Above all, keep trying, don't give up. We appreciate you trying to make a difference.
Q. Is this message blank? Seriously, I can't tell if I'm writing this. I'll send it anyway, you might be able to answer
my question. (June 19)
A. The message was not blank, at least I read the above, well maybe it was blank and I just made that stuff
up...who knows what is real anyway. School has me so stressed out I just do not know if I'm
awake or asleep, in fact I keep seeing penquins, mauve penguins with 12 toes and green feet...
There's one NOW!
I'm feeling a bit better now...your message came through, when you send it you should get a
confirmatiom page to indicate the message was sent. So ask away.
Q. Hello there, I was wondering if it could be possible to have a link to posters and posts that are around the
school for us whom are forgetful and forget what the specifics of the posts are? (June 18)
A. Not a bad idea, The only difficulty is that I, like you have trouble keeping up with the vast number of posters
being posted... Starting in September 2011, I will leave a box in the main office reception area where a copy of
posters can be dropped off, scanned images can then be posted in the site. Wait a minute! posssibly we could
have a automated posty thingy on the site...I'll work it out and let everyone know.
Q. Can you put the past announcements on here? I wasn't here Monday and Tuesday due to school related
activites, and would like to know what I have missed, for future reference can you try and create a page where
you can see past annoucements? (May 12)
A. Not a bad idea, I have added an announcement archive to the main page menu (only the main page at this
time). The announcements are in the form as read in the morning, I do not edit.
Q. (Various Dates)
A. I get a lot of these emails, they appear to be blank, I'm guessing that you're just too embarrassed to ask, so yes,
I am available for parties, concerts, Royal Weddings etc.
Q. I contacted Mx XXXXX about the cheerleading page and they said the'd try and make it happen but there isn't
one when i tried email them again they never answerd ( i know they're a teacher and they're busy yeah yeah)
Anyways my question is... will there ever be a cheerleading page?? hopefully in the near future? :) thankx
(May 5, 2011)
A. I have no problem putting a Cheerleading page up, I just need some content to put on it. I could put a picture
of myself screaming 'BCI!' but most might find it a bit frightening. I will try and pry some information out of
some people and see if we can get something going. Until then, here is a little video of some of the cheer team's
moves from our January Christmas Assembly.
Q. why is there no boy's baseball (May 3, 2011)
A. I'm guessing it is because of the fact that girls are way better at baseball and the boys feel inferior?
Not all sports are offered for a number of reasons.
1. Enough students have to express an interest in order to create a team.
2. Other schools need to be contacted, they also have to field teams in order to have competition.
3. A coach needs to be found that has an interest in the sport or just in having fun.
My advice is that if you are a junior, let one of the Physical Education teachers (Link, Cohoon, Dailey)
know of your interest now, they may be able to organize something for the 2011-2012 school year.
Ya, organizing things often takes time.
Q. if you want the dances to happen to have to do wway more advertising, and not sell tickest just 3 days before
the dance. The problem is that no one knows about the dance until its too late, put more work into it.
(May 3, 2011)
A. You have a valid point. Publicity is key to events like these. There are of course, other issues too, like the
coming Prom. Many seniors do not want to spend the money on both events. It is possible that students'
council does not always publicize events as well as it could. One way to ensure that events get the publicity
they need is to volunteer to help out. Students' Council meets each Wednesday in room 301 at lunch and all
students are welcome to the meetings.
Q. Can't access daily announcements from your home page...(May 3, 2011)
A. Neither can I! I shall investigate and leave no stone unturned until I find the low-down varmint (read in
Yosemite Sam's voice) that did away with the announcement page! Oh wait...It was me. Questionable humour
aside, the system of getting announcements to the web person on time for publication, broke down and failed
for a number of reasons. I have formed a committee (admittedly, of only one) to look into viable alternatives,
until then I'm sorry that this service is not readily available, I'll do what I can.
For the very young, this is Yosemite Sam.
Q. You take too long to respond to questions.(May 2, 2011)
A. Now before ya get all snarky and uppitty... I answer these in my spare time, being well over 30 years old (I
almost remember 30 but then I get distracted and have a bowl of warm mush) and using an 8088 computer
running windows 3.1 (I hope to upgrade to 3.11 so's I can run the interwebs) I find it hard to keep up with you
youngsters. What with most of the anonymous messages coming in having been written by Rhodes Scholars,
it's hard to go through all the herp derp and get to the questions I can really answer. The real secret to life is
that you either have to wait for the best answers or you have to answer the question yourself. Answering the
question yourself is often the best way to go, you really do learn and remember more that way. (unless the
question is 'What does this button do?', in that case, read and obey the sign that say's 'Don't press!'. I look
forward to your next question, please send the answer along with the question, it will make it faster and easier
for both of us. Now I have to go and update my gansta-rap mySpace page.
Q. bring back the daily announcements the people at vic never hear them (April 27, 2011)
A. I hear you, working on some new ideas. Students and teachers stopped reading them and stopped sending
them to the webmaster in time for publishing.
Q. do we have any days off between the last full day of school and exams to study? (April 23, 2011)
A. The last day of school is June 21, 2011. Exams start on June 22. There are no days off before exams. Your
teachers will offer you review in classes the week before exams in order to help you to focus on the important
concepts you will need to know to write a good exam.
Q. Why did you get rid of the old BCI auditorium? I know it was because of construction, but the old auditorium
was 10x better than the new one. There was more room, and it actually looked like it fit and went with BCI,
the new one just seems like a room with a stage, I'm not being rude by any means, I'm just curious.
(April 17, 2011)
A. Good question, to start off I did not do it! I know what you mean though, the old Aud had a lot of history to
it, the beautiful wood construction also gave it accoustics that added to the feeling that one was in a theatre
rather than an auditorium. The redesign of the school called for keeping the aud, then keeping the wood
beams etc as part of a new library, but alas the cost of keeping it where it was escalated an amount that was
difficult to justify. I do not believe the space held more people, but it will be missed.
Q. Is there going to be a Relay for Life at BCI this year? I'm not sure who usually organizes it, so I don't know
who to ask! (April 13, 2011)
A. As far as I can find out at this point in time, no, no-one has stepped forward to organize the event for 2011.
Q. When will Ryerson Heights students receive their Laurier letters? (April 21, 2011)
A. Letters will be sent out to all applicants whether they are accepted or not. Letters will be sent out by
April 29, 2011 - sorry for the delay.
Q. when will we know if we're in the Laurier program?? And how? Thnx :) (Feb 25, 2011)
A. Letters will be sent out to all applicants whether they are accepted or not. Letters will be sent out by the end
of the first week of April.
Q. we hate you (Feb 25, 2011)
A. I guess you must know me then. Seriously, there are just two types of people in the world, those that are happy
(or are at least happy sometimes) and those that are never happy. People who hate are those that are never
happy. If you want to go through life as an unhappy grumpypants, well, you can try, but I love you anyway.
Unhappy grumpypants...you Me and my happy friends.
Q. Why is the Principal's office larger than the cafeteria? (Feb 22, 2011)
A. This is a very common misconception here at BCI. The principal's office was built after the cafeteria and
makes use of new technology called quantum interstitial space-time compression. The actual office is only one
metre square, it only seems large due to the spatial anomaly of near-time versus far-time. Take a physics
course soon and it will all be clear.
Principal's office was built by the same people who built this object.
Q. you DIDNT answer my full question about cherrleading For incoming freshmans. We dont know the advisor
thats why we need a cheerleaqding page ? (Feb 12, 2011)
A. Whoa! Don't go all CAPSLOCK on me! I did not know who the advisor was either, so I puts on me Sherlock
Holmes hat and went investigating. After seriously investigating for over 5 minutes (which is long for me as I
have an attention span of less than, oh look a monkey!) I found Miss Terry in the math department, she
admitted to me that she is the advisor for the cheerleading squad. Feel free to look her up and talk with her.
Q. why isn't there a cheerleading page in the sports section??? please make one :) (Feb 4, 2011)
A. Please see below.
Q. on the bci websire there is no cheerleading section in the sports and for a incoming freshman its very needed
to have the requierments for compeition cheer leading at bci so i can be prepared please make a cheerleading
page thanks (Feb 3, 2011)
A. While the very talented but extremely unappreciated (and woefully underpaid) person that maintains the BCI
site wishes they had the time and creative talent needed to make everyone happy, they often fail. While we
want every group, team and club to be fully represented we need HELP! Want to see a cheerleading section?
Get your advisor to forward some info to my secret lair. A few representative pictures would be nice too!
Have some talented artists in your group? Design a logo or graphic (make sure it looks nice on a blue
background.) Give me a little info/inspiration and you will have your own page. BCI's webmaster...Hard at
work!
Q. what is escapade??? (Jan 5, 2011 - kimbo_girl)
A. Escapade is a BCI tradition, which of course, makes it one of the most awesomest things ever! French and
Spanish speakers know it as ESCAPE, to get away from, in English it may be closer to an adventurous action
that runs counter to approved or conventional conduct. Conventional conduct on a Friday is to be in school,
but you will find the BCI crowd having fun at the water park on that day. Check out the pictures here.
Q. I strongly believe that we should have offical lemur day :D we all hop to class like lemurs :D :D :D don't you
think it would be AWESOME!!! (Jan 7, 2011 - Anonymous)
A. Oh Ya! But then, everything we do at BCI is AWEsome! The only problem I can see is that it might not be
inclusive for all our students. Some of the smokers have trouble even getting up the stairs in the morning so as
to attend homeroom. BCI loves it's lemurs. If you were at the Christmas assembly you would have seen the
lemur section well attended, as well as the lemur dance instructors showing the humans how it is done.
Q. During Exam week, are we still picked up to go home at the regular time despite finishing three hours earlier?
A. During exams, buses will run at their regular scheduled times except for the Six Nations buses which will pick
students up at 11:45 am.