Parents with children at Salisbury Elementary are hoping to apply some pressure on the government, after years of waiting for the approval of a new school.
For the past three years, the Anglophone East District Education Council has had the school on the Major capital request list to the province.
Jenna Morton, has a son in grades 1, and a daughter in grade 3 at the Kindergarten to grade 4 school.
“We have a cafeteria that the children can’t eat in because it is overcrowded. We have, I don’t know how many portables there already, and adding more is not the answer. It is almost old enough to be a heritage property, but it certainly is not. It needs to be replaced,” Morton says.
Morton says the other issue is the population in the Village and enrollment at the school continues to rise.
“The population in Salisbury itself in the Village has gone up more than three per cent over the last five years. The housing numbers in the Village have gone up over five per cent. The classes are getting bigger and bigger and more students are showing up each school year in September. The classes are full,” Morton says.
She adds the province keep putting everything on hold and nothing is being done for the upkeep, “Everyone is just waiting. We have been told, it has past all of the processes. Bottom line is, it just needs to be replaced,” Morton says.
