James Cantwell This is Me

Education

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1. 1. 6 schools await word on fate

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   Published on: 1/17/2005   Last Visited: 2/27/2006

   James Cantwell, 6, is a student at St. Gabriel School in Point St. Charles. He works with a counsellor during an after-school homework session at a YMCA, which is within walking distance of his school.
   ...
   After St. Gabriel's last bell rings at 2:15, Cantwell picks up her kids and they walk to the local YMCA. Cantwell volunteers at the youth centre downstairs, while James and another student from St. Gabriel do their homework with youth worker Joanne Levasseur.
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   James asks her.
   
   "How do you think you spell it?" she replies.
   
   "W-A-N?" he asks.
   
   "No, but I'll give you a hint. It starts with an 'o,' " she says.
   
   "O-N-E," he says tentatively.
   
   "Very good. Are you writing a story?" she asks.
   ...
   One greets Cantwell by name as she works downstairs, helping the children with their homework. Even if St. Gabriel closes, Cantwell said she'll continue volunteering at the Y.
   
   While Dylan is off to high school next year, James will probably switch to St. John Bosco, a bilingual school in Notre Dame de Grace. Instead of picking up James at school, she'd meet him with the other kids at the bus stop on the corner of Ash Ave. and LeBer St. She's not looking forward to it.