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| Kids love their bright new school! |
After years of begging the provincial government to authorize schools for Edmonton's new neighbourhoods, we were finally delighted to open not 1 but 6 new schools this year!
A new school is such a joyous and hopeful occasion for a community. It represents all of our hopes and dreams for the future. For school trustees, these events are a highlight of our work and represent the culmination of much co-operative effort by many parties for the ultimate benefit of our children. It's too bad that each school opening, that had an overflow audience, didn't make front page news. I guess it's the just the nature of the news media beast that bad news gets more coverage than good news.
The new Board can look forward to opening 3 new schools in the fall of 2012. By then, they may well need something to lift their spirits if they proceed with current plans to close another raft of older, low enrollment schools.
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