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Only in Ontario, back in the day there were 13 grades. The last grade was called O.A.C. because the courses you studied were Ontario Academic Credits used exclusively for univeristy acceptance. You would only study grade 13 if you planned on attending university and would thus cater your courses to whatver you planned on taking. For ex, someone in engineering would take OAC Physics, Agebra & Geo., etc. etc. and the institution would take your 6 best O.A.C.'s, one of which has to be O.A.C. english.
Anyways, a few years back the provincial gov't made massive cuts to education spending and one of the first things to go was to get rid of grade 13. So, eventually everyone knew there would be a double-cohort year of two full grades across the province. That year is september of 2003, there will be more than double the amount of students applying to get into post-secondary as the year before. Lastly, Ontario maintains a disproportionate amount of the total pop. in Canada at about 35-40%. That's why ppl are freaking out, this will have huge implications for the students involved, not just in school but after graduation as well.
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