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Originally Posted by ArchAficionado
What's surprising to me is that in this decade despite our fast growing population there seems to be little demand to build new schools / develop school infrstructure beyond replacement of the aging buildings for those same schools that the boomer generation came in.
Baby boom was no joke! All those huge schools bursting at the seems is wild to me. Must have been more teenagers at that time despite having 1/4 the total population. Now all those teenagers are old and complaining about their property taxes increasing to the market rate  |
Your post seemed promising in that it brings about a situation that I’ve been wondering about. It seems like the government has just finished the process of purging old school sites to be turned into housing because of a population boom, but it seems that nobody connected the dots to realize that record populations are going to need more schools in their neighbourhoods. Especially given the recent (mislabelled) “lack of fertility” media reports saying that Canadians are not having as many children because of choices, costs, etc, but adding the subtext at the end that immigrant families statistically tend to have more children than families who originate from Canada. Well it would seem that our extremely large increase in population logically (and anecdotally) must be due mostly to immigration… so maybe we will need more schools? But… they have systematically removed those prime school sites from public ownership, so they will never be schools again. I think it’s a topic worth discussing.
Then you lost me by turning your post into a comment laced with boomophobia…
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