Very interesting.

Did the past and present Indian Reserves not prove that segregation does not work? So now they will separate the Indians from real life experience and create more issues. You can’t keep people in a bubble and expect success.

im a racist if i was to ask for a white choicenschool...but this is ok.

This is not an Aboriginal only school, kids of any colour or culture can go there. What about that is so hard to understand for some people?

Apparently a lot of people can't read or navigate the internet to read the report for themselves.

Much easier to make half-truths about segregation and continue to know what they're talking about.

This is a bold move for the trustees and they made a tough choice. Time will tell if this is the right choice, but lets try something different, cause what we're doing now is not working.

Ok I’m a little confused here. Did i or did i not read that over 14 schools were to be closed in PG and area?

Why are WE providing such a selective school?
Why is wasting our money on such a project even being allowed? We have schools in BC that are for everyone, so would it not be cheaper to have a Native history class that is optional for everyone to take? I hope we do not start down a path of endless cash being pored into such a project as this! Save money… use the system that is in place now and just add an extra History class
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1) Will this cost taxpayers extra from the current traditional schools?
2) How will it match in comparison to other schools budget wise?)
3) Will it remain in government hands or will it be handed over in the future?
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IMO this is a slap across the face to those that are loosing schools due to budget cuts!

Correct me if I am wrong.

But as far as I've been told, if an aboriginal teacher with no to little seniority wants to teach at this new school, they will be able to bump a teacher that has more seniority.

This is all about social engineering by the Board of Trustees. They are creating tommorrows problems today. Maybe the school board needs a recall campaign?

I don't think they have the mandate to impliment a racist school at the time they are closing 14 other non racist schools.

PG has had a white choice school for many years. The Traditional school is based on an English Grammar school of the kind I attended so long ago.

Eagleone, it is about the demand put forward by the Aboriginal community at large who are tired of seeing their kids fail, and to a lesser degree a few folks who are seeing the social cost caused by the high (65%) dropout rate of Aboriginal students. Any dropout costs society big $$$$.

Racist? Now that's reaching. The choice school will be for anyone who chooses to attend it. IT is a choice school. Honestly, think before you speak.

Also, I was at the meeting and the superintendent said this school will not cost anything above the current funding level Carney Hill receives. There are certain aspects that will need to go and some need compromise.

Congratulations .. We have just regressed back to Alabama in the sixties.

"Eighty eight percent of the student population at Carney Hill is already Aboriginal".

Is that true? Are there that many Aboriginals living in that area? That number seems a little high to me. Or do Aboriginals already travel to attend Carney Hill?

Eagleone, it is about the demand put forward by the Aboriginal community at large who are tired of seeing their kids fail, and to a lesser degree a few folks who are seeing the social cost caused by the high (65%) dropout rate of Aboriginal students. Any dropout costs society big $$$$.

Racist? Now that's reaching. The choice school will be for anyone who chooses to attend it. IT is a choice school. Honestly, think before you speak.

Also, I was at the meeting and the superintendent said this school will not cost anything above the current funding level Carney Hill receives. There are certain aspects that will need to go and some need compromise.

Let us not throw the babies with the bathtub - let's keep the staff who have worked there for many years continue - for many of the students they represent stability and hope - by changing the entire working staff is absurd.

Indian kids failing school have nothing to do with the school system. But has everything to do with their home environment, parents and or roll models (or lack there of).

What's next? East Indian schools?
Chinese schools?

A plate of segregation and a side of mix please. Therefore, it is not segregated. As long as no one sleeps over, I don't see a problem many years down the road. Like before. One more thing, I sure hope they monitor the expected upsurge in diplomas and graduations, if at all, just to show those negative ninnies that we are doing the right thing with this school. Time will tell.

Will the standard of education be lowered to accommodate the "lowest common denominator". That is to say, dumb it down, provide great self esteem, a bit of folklore and legends, and stories, and thereby making it look like an easy ride for non-native kids who may want to attend? Or will be a school that mirrors all others, what's the point? Will it also be a sweet grass smoke-free school?

There will be no lowering of standards. That is written into the report. The whole goal of the school is to give kids a good foundation, so they don't drop out of school.

To lower standards and a bot of folklore would be basically doing what they do today and that hasn't worked at all.

The bar will be set high. Any successful Aboriginal person knows the bar is already set high anyway, and it is those type of people who want the school in the first place.

No lowering of standards? Hmmm? "The whole goal of the school is to give kids a good foundation so they don't drop out of school". Does an aboriginal kid's "foundation" differ from that of a white kid's "foundation?" If so, how? Be specific. Get yer thesaurus out and call it anything but segregation. Adding a few white kids to the school doesn't change it. Special but the same? Different but the same? Even playing field? Find yer own cliche. I have no say in this matter, but I do have the time to wait and see how this "social experiment" with peoples lives turns out. Good luck.