【バンクーバー教育委員会】2017年に12校の閉鎖を検討
バンクーバー教育委員会では、以下の学校の閉鎖を検討しています。
Queen Elizabeth Annex (K – 3)
Champlain Heights Annex (K – 3)
Tecumseh Annex (K – 3)
McBride Annex (K – 3)
Dr AR Lord Elementary
Admiral Seymour Elementary
Graham D Bruce Elementary
Sir Guy Carleton Elementary
Queen Alexandra Elementary
Pierre Elliott Trudeau Elementary
Britannia Secondary
Gladstone Secondary
12月中旬までどこの学校が実際に閉鎖されるかは不透明な状況ですが、12校が閉鎖のリストに上がっています。これらの学校の地元では、市へ学校継続の嘆願書が出されたり、学校閉校反対へのサポート活動が繰り広げられています。
今回の閉鎖の理由として、校舎の老朽化（地震対策不足、雨漏り等）により多くの学校で修繕・改築費のアップ、そして、学生数の減少や予算減などが挙げられています。この閉鎖により、$8.2million（約7億円）の節約ができるとしています。
閉鎖校リスト詳細 バンクーバー教育委員会
- Queen Elizabeth Annex (K – 3)
If approved for closure, the primary French Immersion program offered at Queen Elizabeth Annex would be accommodated at Queen Elizabeth Elementary. Locating the French Immersion program at Queen Elizabeth Elementary could support closer connections and collaboration between staff and students in this primary program and the main school program at École Jules Quesnel, where students already go for grade four.
- Champlain Heights Annex (K – 3)
If approved for closure, students at Champlain Heights Annex would be accommodated at Champlain Heights Elementary. The annex shares a catchment with the main school. Students enrolled at Champlain Heights Annex already move to the main school for grade four.
- Tecumseh Annex (K – 3)
If approved for closure, students at Tecumseh Annex would be accommodated at Tecumseh Elementary. The annex shares a catchment with Tecumseh Elementary, where students already go for grade four. Tecumseh Elementary has been seismically upgraded, placing students in a seismically safe school.
- McBride Annex (K – 3)
If approved for closure, students at McBride Annex would be accommodated at McBride Elementary. The annex shares a catchment with the main school. Students enrolled at McBride Annex already move to the main school for grade four. McBride Elementary has been seismically upgraded.
- Dr. A.R. Lord Elementary
If approved for closure students at Lord Elementary would be accommodated at Begbie Elementary. Begbie is on the priority list for seismic upgrading.
- Admiral Seymour Elementary
If approved for closure, students at Seymour Elementary would be accommodated at Strathcona Elementary. This would not occur until 2018/19 after seismic upgrading of Strathcona is complete and once the new school at International Village is open.
- Graham D. Bruce Elementary
If approved for closure, students at Bruce Elementary would be accommodated at Grenfell and Collingwood Annex. Collingwood would become the annex of Grenfell Elementary. Both Bruce and Grenfell are in need of seismic upgrading. By combining the school communities, VSB can make a stronger case for potentially building a replacement school for this community.
- Sir Guy Carleton Elementary
If approved for closure, students at Carleton Elementary would be accommodated at Cunningham Elementary and MacCorkindale Elementary. By combining these three school communities into two sites at MacCorkindale and Cunningham, VSB can make a stronger case for funding to complete the seismic upgrading of these two schools.
- Queen Alexandra Elementary
If approved for closure, students at Queen Alexandra Elementary would be accommodated at Grandview Elementary and Florence Nightingale Elementary. By combining these three school communities into two sites at Grandview and Nightingale, VSB can make a stronger case for funding to complete the seismic upgrading of these two schools.
- Pierre Elliott Trudeau Elementary
If approved for closure, students at Trudeau Elementary would be accommodated at Walter Moberly Elementary. Moberly Elementary has been seismically upgraded, placing students in a seismically safe school.
- Britannia Secondary
If approved for closure, students at Britannia would be accommodated at Templeton Secondary. The combined school community would not fit into Britannia’s building. But by combining the communities in Templeton, VSB can make a stronger case for potentially building a replacement school for the combined communities.
- Gladstone Secondary
If approved for closure, students at Gladstone would be accommodated at Windermere Secondary, Vancouver Technical Secondary, John Oliver Secondary and Tupper Secondary. The buildings at Tupper and Van Tech have been seismically upgraded, so students would get a safer school. With the incoming students, John Oliver and Windermere’s new enrolment makes those sites better candidates for seismic upgrades or new school buildings in the coming years.
