De-Streamed

Across North America, many high school students are separated based on their perceived ability in a practice known as "streaming". Due to subconscious biases, many capable kids, and particularly Black and marginalized students, mistakenly end up in these lower streams, ultimately barring them from many post-secondary options so early on in their life, and perpetuating a cycle of systemic poverty. By the time a student realizes, it's often too late or nearly insurmountable to change. Filmed in a Toronto high school at the height of the pandemic, DE-STREAMED follows a group of tenacious educators and their students as they radically overhaul this harmful practice.