Wild Rose parents want current programs maintained
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Parents and community members attending town hall meetings for Wild Rose Public Schools this week made it clear that student support services need to be maintained in the face of budget restrictions.
People attending the meeting told the school division that they wanted areas such as counselling and special needs education programming to continue no matter what sorts of cuts the division may have to make for the coming school year, said Bobbie-Jo Douglas, district administrator-community and public relations with Wild Rose. She said people also made it clear that they wanted educational assistants to continue to be in the classroom.
Wild Rose Public Schools held two town hall meetings, one in Breton on Tuesday and one in Caroline on Thursday, that drew around 120 people altogether. It’s the second annual town hall meetings for Wild Rose Public Schools, which serve around 5,400 students from Drayton Valley to Caroline.
Besides looking at what programing is critical in the school division, the meeting also examined what changes people would like to see in schools so they prepare students for the 21st century.
Douglas said they were surprised to see that it wasn’t completely technology focused. She said although technology formed a part of it, people were interested in keeping one-on-one personal side of education.
The information will be compiled next week and be used by trustees in developing their three-year education plan.
“We try to be as broad-ranged as possible because we want as many ideas and as much feedback as possible from our communities because we know that schools serve the communities, as much as they serve the parents and the students in our schools,” Douglas said.
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