Saskatchewan’s new Democratic Party (NPD) denounces the degradation of the Boréale school in Ponteix. Her spokesperson for French-speaking affairs, Jacqueline Roy, said that this is one of the “worst” schools she has ever visited.
In the Legislative Assembly, Jacqueline Roy claimed to have visited the school in question, which she found in a deplorable state.
During my 17 years of career as an educator by profession, I have never seen a worse than that one school.
It indicates that students, whether French -speaking or English -speaking, are entitled to safe learning conditions
everywhere in the province.
Jacqueline Roy called the Minister of SaskBuilds And the supply, David Marit, elected in the district where Ponteix is located, to visit the Boréale school to realize the situation.
If he went there, he could see the ruined library with his own eyes, cracks in the walls and worn carpets in the gymnasium
explains Ms. Roy.
His colleague Matt Love, spokesperson for education for neo-democrats, accused the Minister of Education, Everett Hindley, of having allowed a dangerous overpopulation of the school.
The gymnasium is not a gymnasium, it is a corridor
he notably stressed.
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The NPD points out that the premanelle room of the Boréale school is “small” and that there is not “a lot of space to play and explore”.
Photo: provided by the new Saskatchewan Democratic Party
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The gymnasium of the Boréale school in Ponteix.
Photo: provided by the new Saskatchewan Democratic Party
The school had sounded the alarm in 2018 in the face of the overcrowding of its classrooms. At the time, he had 34 students and claimed to have used all the available space, forcing it to convert a majority of the Royer cultural center into daycare and classes, for example.
For the 2023-2024 school year, the school had 31 students.
A school born in its conditions
Walter Chizzini, Community Development Agent of Auvergnois de Ponteix, said at a press conference, alongside the NPDthat the school had formed in conditions which were not ideal for the fifteen students who went there.
The school has since seen an increase in its students, which has empire
the situation.
The number of students has increased and it was necessary to acquire portables. […] But, in these portables, pseudoclasses have been created, so space has been completely insufficient since the creation of the school.
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A classroom of the boreal school.
Photo: provided by the new Saskatchewan Democratic Party
Investments records
in education
The Minister of Education Saskatchewanese, Everett Hindley, says that his government takes education seriously
And that his investments prove his commitment.
He recalls that his government increased its budget by 8.4 % for the 27 Saskatchewanese school divisions.
However, he recognizes that work in schools through the province is far from over.
We recognize that there are priorities throughout Saskatchewan, in our major centers, but also in our rural communities, from one border to another
he mentions.
We will continue to work closely with the French -speaking community to identify these priorities.
He says that, although he has not visited the establishment, it would be happy
to do it.
When publishing these lines, the Council of Fransaskoises schools and the Minister of SaskBuilds had not responded to our request for comments.
