Please don’t let this happen!!!
Every Fernie resident has a responsibility to try to stop the School Board from closing our schools. We have already lost one , and to lose another school would be a tradgedy. I know enrollment was down this year at Max Turyk but from talking to local parents, it sounds like that was partly a knee-jerk reaction to the rumour that the school would be closing, so everyone enrolled their kids at IDES, which is now overflowing. Where are these extra kids going to go? IDES is certainly not big enough, and as far as I know the Academy is already at capacity enrollment for the past couple of years.
Walk up and down 2nd Ave, how many parents do you see with strollers? There are plenty of little kids out there – where are they going to go to school? How do we encourage families to come here if we are closing the schools down?
It’s time to do something about this. Please, someone list on here what action we can take. Who do we write to? Who do we call? Who is putting together a petition and where can it be signed?
