A lunchtime soccer match takes place near the Olympic Village in Vancouver, on Oct. 7, 2008. The number of school-age children is growing in neighbourhoods closer to Vancouver's city centre, but many children are stuck on waiting lists for schools closer to home.Nothing, and I mean nothing, gets parents in a lather faster than the lack of available space for their child in a school close to home. Most of us, if we lived in the city, grew up being able to walk or bike to school.
Although Vancouver’s population is growing, public-school enrolment has been dropping steadily since 1997, and the downward slide is expected to continue for another decade. Schools in some of the less-populous neighbourhoods are hollowing out. The provincial government, which funds new schools and is bankrolling expensive seismic upgrading for old ones, insists it doesn’t have the cash to build new schools unless old, underused schools close. It blames the VSB’s failure to make tough decisions for the stalemate. The VSB complains it is chronically underfunded and rightfully points out that closing neighbourhood schools hurts neighbourhoods and alienates parents.
The provincial government points out that the Olympic Village school is now the VSB’s top capital priority. But the school might have been built quicker if the VSB had considered a money-saving proposal put forward by the province. The province proposed closing Queen Elizabeth Annex as a public facility and leasing the space to a French school in search of a home. That plan would have freed up money for capital projects such as the school at Olympic Village.
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