It's no surprise that our local highschools are overcrowded and in the next 20 year plan there is not plan to build a new highschool in the South Surrey area which is an area of rapidly growing families that desperately need another highschool, let alone another elementary school.
I do not have any children myself in highschool yet, but will soon and what I read, what I hear is very alarming.
If you have a child in one of our local highschools please let us know from your first hand experience what is going on and we'll update this blog with information we can.
I heard from one parent two evenings ago, while in a very casual conversation that her middle child, in grade 12 at one of our local South Surrey highschools is taking a very difficult course this term. The term started the beginning of January and becuase of the large class size the teacher was not able to hand out text books until just this week! These kids are desperately behind, not doing well grade wise simply because they have not been given the resources they needed. If this is happening in one class, in one school what else is going on?
How are our kids supposed to feel good about themselves when they can't even get the text books they need?
Is it alright for our many of our kids to spend their highschool years learning in stuffy portables which take over valuable field space?
If the schools need to pay for these increases in portables for the increase in student population and the cost has to come directly out of the school budget what gets cut to pay for them?
Will our children be able to fairly compete for post-secondary institutions and for their future careers?
Is writing to our local MLA's enough?
Your thoughts...Please!
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