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Originally Posted by Urbanarchit

Except Fisher Park has returned to being a popular school as of 20 years ago (I attended it for middle school, and I had to interview to get in despite living nearby). They offer a good French-immersion program, English program, and alternative school, as well as I believe some smaller programs. Of all the elementary schools in the area (Elmdale, Hilson, Devonshire, Connaught), none of them offer grades 7 and 8, and don't have the space to offer them. Fisher Park fills the gap by only offering those grades. With enrollment up at these schools, it's not likely that Fisher will ever be demolished due to being under-capacity. As well, let's not forget the projected amount of development this area is anticipating. We'll might soon need to consider building new schools if in 20 years everything has been developed.

As a side note.. am I the only one sickened by how the OCDSB runs its schools like charter schools? Seriously, interviews, special programs... whatever happened to school zones and going to the school assigned to your neighbourhood?