You just need 20 students to get a school built? Other rural neighborhoods should be lining up for funding as we speak.

Posted on Friday, January 16, 2015 @ 2:56 PM by JohnnyBelt

You just need 20 students to get a school built? Other rural neighborhoods should be lining up for funding as we speak.

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The way I heard it was you need a trustee whose kids go there if you want it saved.

The way I heard it you need a minimum of 9 Students. We have had instances where parents enrolled in schools to keep them from closing.

PS: Why is it that every venture that MS Bond is involved in always refers to how hard she worked. Hmmmmm. Is she the only hard working person in North Central BC??

If that was the case, Harwin??/ would have a new school by now.. Instead the French students are stuck in College Heights at considerable inconvenience and expense to the parents

The French students don’t have to travel 2 hours one way to get to school but I guess that doesn’t matter to some people. It’s just inconvenient for them to have to go to College Heights. I know the people in Giscome choose to live there but they deserve a school in their area as much as anyone else does.

I would say Denise MacDonald was the the hardest worker in regards to getting the school. Not Bond…..

There are kids as far away as longworth attending that is one reason for the school. Catchment involves long distances to Giscome let alone continuing into Blackburn.

Kudo’s to Denise MacDonald.

no one was saying it doesn;t matter to some people.. I was just referring to the comment that only twenty students were needed to build a school.. Personally, I’d rather see smaller schools than these big ones in our city

Some superficial comments, that question the need for a new school, really do not consider future growth for the Giscome area. Graymount’s Lime Plant will employ at least 20 people, which equates to 20 additional families moving into the Giscome area. It is a guarantee that enrolment will increase at that school.

Some superficial comments that really do not take into account future growth for the Giscome area. Greymount’s Lime Plant will employ at least 20 people, that’s 20 families moving into the Giscome area. Enrollment at that school is guaranteed to increase two fold.

^^^^^Why so they can be shut down and neighborhoods have to go thru the crap the Haldi people went thru? False promises from politicians and the school district?

The people of that area fought tooth and nail to keep the school open. It was not shut down due to enrollment. It was shut down because the school district did not want to put anymore money into it.

Kudos for Denis MacDonald for sticking to her guns. Thank goodness she kept at it!

It’s really because the SD57 condemned the school instead of closing it. So in the end you can’t have it both ways and there is a need for a school for kids that should not have to spend 1 to 2 hours one way on a bus to get to school. It was nice to see a multipurpose building also in stead of always having a single use building. I guess time will tell how the student population will be over time. Last statement is there been huge amount of money in revenue taken out of the east-line of PG for years (and still is) so a little tax money back is a good thing to keep the scale balanced for the area. There was some very hard work by a few to make this happen.

Sure, put a school in every rural neighborhood. Just don’t ask people to pay for it, that’s when the fight will begin.