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Originally Posted by tyeman200
I do agree with you with how the funding is. But, at the same time, why would they bother keeping a school open, if they can't even get the funding to fix it up? I mean, that decision to keep it open happened 3 years ago, and no repairs have been made. The school is basically near Prohibitive to repair status.
On another note, I think the school board needs to slow down school closings. I bet you the other reason they aren't getting the funding they need, is because they keep closing schools down each year, and keep asking the province for money over and over again.
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funding is provided per student. each student has a price
theyd get the same amount of money if they had 50 000 students between 100 schools as they would 50 000 students between 50 schools. obviously its easier to maintain 50 schools with the same amount of funds.
the province isn't going to throw more money at the school board because they keep schools open that are at 50% capacity. the province needs to balanace a huge deficit, they have a standard funding formula in place. its not subjective "hey this school board wants to keep tons of half empty schools open lets give them more money." .... Thats a sure way to go bankrupt.