Dear editor,It looks like the Taj Mahal of schools is nearing completion only a month behind schedule.The Ministry of Education press release states that the province has invested $24.9 million in building the school.Perhaps those costs could have been lower had they decided to use local contractors to do some of the work. I live only a few blocks away and have yet to recognize any local businesses involved in the building of the school.At a capacity of 320 children, that is an investment of $77,821.50 per child. With Highland overcapacity at just under 900 students, I can hardly wait to see the new high school they will build.If funding is equal between French and English, I guess the new school budget should be just over $70 million. I am sure I will be a grandparent long before I see that school built.I truly wonder what the real costs will be when one considers the maintenance costs of such extravagance. Nevermind cleaning the windows but maintaining the full-time security.I am sure that those select students will enjoy their new state-of-the art school and will reap the benefits. I guess the only way my son will see the benefits of such a “quality” school will be to enrol.Oh, wait, I hear you need to have French ancestry. It sucks being born on the other side of the tracks.Dwayne Robertson,Comox Valley
‘Taj Mahal of schools’ almost completed
Dear editor,
It looks like the Taj Mahal of schools is nearing completion only a month behind schedule.
