A correction to your newsletter - you said "The school district is changing catchment areas, the most notable of which are redirecting some students from Duchess Park to DP Todd, making the need to eventually expand DP Todd’s capacity more urgent."
That catchment change - moving Spruceland and Edgewood students from Duchess Park to DP Todd - actually happened in 2020, to address capacity issues at Duchess Park. Previously, in 2017, Duchess Park closed catchment. One of the changes that took place last night was to re-open the catchment, so that secondary school students could now choose to go to Duchess Park even if they don't live in the catchment, or attend the feeder schools.
Hello Andrew!
A correction to your newsletter - you said "The school district is changing catchment areas, the most notable of which are redirecting some students from Duchess Park to DP Todd, making the need to eventually expand DP Todd’s capacity more urgent."
That catchment change - moving Spruceland and Edgewood students from Duchess Park to DP Todd - actually happened in 2020, to address capacity issues at Duchess Park. Previously, in 2017, Duchess Park closed catchment. One of the changes that took place last night was to re-open the catchment, so that secondary school students could now choose to go to Duchess Park even if they don't live in the catchment, or attend the feeder schools.
Please let me know if any questions about this!
Sarah Holland, school trustee
sholland@sd57.bc.ca
Came here to say the same thing.
Curious why no one asked Ramsay about the huge decrease in administration costs over the next 5 years . We are firing all the exempt staff?