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Taylor Swift club at Ontario public school calls urgent meeting. On the agenda? Her latest album

Taylor Swift club at Ontario public school calls urgent meeting. On the agenda? Her latest album

CBC
Saturday, April 20, 2024 01:50:24 PM UTC

Even though it was a school night, like many Swifties Amherstburg student Keianna Ronayne stayed up to listen to Taylor Swift's new album — The Tortured Poets Department — which dropped at midnight. 

"I just listened to it all night," she told CBC News. 

Despite it being a long night, Keianna came to school prepared to discuss the release with her fellow Swifties. 

She and about 29 of her peers called an urgent meeting of their Taylor Swift Club at Anderdon Public School to break it all down. 

"I thought [the album] was really good," said Keianna, who was wearing a Swift shirt and a wristful of friendship bracelets. 

The group, which has been meeting for the last six weeks, has students from grades 4 to 6. 

And all of them, are Taylor Swift superfans. 

"Once I became a really crazy and obsessed Swiftie, I was really hoping that like there would be a club for me to join and once I found out that there would be a club at this school, I really wanted to join it because I knew there would be lots of fun things to do," said 10-year-old Olivia Rettig. 

Andrea Maziak, who teaches Kindergarten at Anderdon Public, started the group. 

"We get together to celebrate all things Taylor Swift," she said, adding that it's also an opportunity for them to reflect on what the superstar stands for.  

"We like to really think about the values that she brings forward, and so we do things that kind of align with that, it's a safe space for these kids to get together, bond over something that they all love so much," Maziak said. 

For example, Maziak recently had a worksheet for the students around Swift's song "Shake it Off." 

It prompted the kids to write about things that weren't "serving" them and how they wanted to "shake it off." 

"I think it's a difficult time in their development and I think just to have that safe space to talk about things and talk about their troubles," she said.

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