Delhi District Secondary School
Article content originally published in the Simcoe Reformer on July 3, 2025 by J.P. Antonacci
Delhi District Secondary School teacher Colleen Bator, right, and Cindy Smith, left, manager of business services with the Grand Erie District School Board, each receive the Patti McCleister Memorial Award during a recent school board meeting. Ted McCleister, centre, presented the awards in memory of his late wife, a school board employee who died of cancer in 2013. Submitted
High school teacher Colleen Bator moved from downtown Toronto to rural Norfolk County 15 years ago and wasted no time in making her new professional home a more inclusive place.
She started Delhi District Secondary School’s first gay-straight alliance in 2010 when a student approached her to be the teacher representative for a new club.
That same year, Bator founded the school’s Indigenous Student Association.
