Prince George, B.C.- Provincial Education Minister Margaret McDiarmid won’t say where the request for a new school for Giscome fits in the Ministry’s capital plan.

 

Speaking on the Meisner program on CFISFM this morning, McDiarmid wouldn’t say if her ministry will supply the funding for a  new school for Giscome , opting instead to say “We are going to be fair, and we are going to pay attention to the needs of students like those in Giscome“ 

 

The Giscome school was closed because the building was deemed unsafe. The School has since been replaced with two trailers.

 

Minister McDiarmid says she realizes  the Giscome School is the number one capital priority of School District 57 but she adds, this may be time to rethink how rural schools are built  “Should we perhaps be looking at modular structures, they are beautiful, but the costs is substantially lower.”

 

McDiarmid would not say where the Giscome school ranked in her Ministry “It will go in the hopper with all the other priorities, we need to look at the demand for schools that are in poor shape and need to be replaced, but also we need to look at places like Surry where there are thousands of students who currently don’t have a school to go to.” The capital plan will be released in the spring of 2011.