Mission parent protest over broken school promise at Abbotsford-Mission MLA office – BC
Mother and father in Mission held a protest Thursday morning over a damaged promise by the province to construct a brand new highschool to interchange the prevailing Mission Secondary Faculty.
They’re outraged the province now not plans to comply with by way of on a promise made on the marketing campaign path earlier than the final election.
“It’s fully disappointing, and irritating for our children,” stated Candace Koch, one of many dad or mum organizers.
“Our highschool is at 109 per cent capability proper now, children are crowded within the hallways and a number of the applications are wait-listed as a result of the college is simply too small.”
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Mother and father even have considerations with how previous the highschool is.
“We want to ship a message to John Horgan: What are your priorities?” Koch advised World Information Thursday morning.
“This faculty is 70 years previous. Our children deserve a clear, protected studying setting that’s conducive to fashionable training.”
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The B.C. authorities has rejected requests to fund main capital initiatives for 2022-23 resulting from “monetary impacts brought on by the pandemic.”
“There are occasions the place we could must rejig and re-prioritize our capital listing considerably to push our initiatives a bit additional out and people conditions happen when we have now different priorities that come up,” B.C. Minister of Schooling Jennifer Whiteside stated.
Additionally on maintain are initiatives like a brand new faculty in Fernie and a seismic improve of Pitt Meadows Secondary.
Critics have been fast to level out that the NDP has allotted nearly $1 billion in capital spending for the Royal BC Museum alternative.
“They’re promising a billion-plus museum mission, attempting to inform us the 2 initiatives aren’t related, and that they’ve all of the capital to do all of the stuff you wanted, but the NDP faculty (mission) freeze exhibits they don’t,” stated Peter Milobar, B.C. Liberal official Opposition critic for finance.
The protest befell on the constituency workplace of Abbotsford-Mission MLA Pam Alexis.
“MLA (Bob) D’Eith and I are advocating continuously to ensure these protest considerations develop into a actuality, as a result of we perceive the place mother and father are coming from,” Alexis stated.
“We get it and we’re dedicated to this trigger.”
