School closures teach kids a lesson.

So after the ever diminishing education budget of the Canadian government, yet another school bites the dust. The initial assumptions for school closures in Vancouver was that 10 schools could end up closing. So far three schools are slated for closure in North Vancouver with Plymouth elementary, blueridge elementary, and now Fromme, yet according to School board chairwoman Susan Skinner, "Even if all three schools are closed, North Vancouver will still have about 1,000 empty desks." Now to me, that doesn't sound like a lot of progress is being made, which when the district is facing a $6,000,000 shortfall in 2010-11 can't exactly be claimed the way to go. Another problem for North Vancouver education is that the district of West Vancouver has managed to hold its own against private schools in the area, so obviously West Vancouver is looking like the better place to send your kids to school, and thats exactly what is happening, with North Vancouver losing around 547 students to the West according to a brief produced bt Plymouth school. Besides the problem in the West, the North Van district has trouble with losing kids to private schools, with around 20% of the districts children going private. It almost seems like no-one likes the North Van education system, yet it's not just that children in North Vancouver aren't going to school here, another problem that affects the number of empty desks in North Van schools is a fact that demographics in North Vancouver show as a huge problem here. With an average age in North Vancouver being slightly higher than it should be, and a lack of affordable housing within this wondrous North, not everyone can afford to stay, let alone send their children to a rapidly declining education system. Are school closures the way forward? Well with the board chairwoman voting against closure of fromme school, I'm probably going to go with her and say maybe not, we shall see.