And so we would really like to see a school in the neighbourhood," she said. The EMSB has created a virtual collection of digital social stories that are freely available through the Parkdale Elementary School website. We're able to ride our bikes downtown, able to use the pathways, walk around, and when we're looking at schools, we're looking at having to bus her out and potentially quite far. A new virtual collection of digital social stories for students with autism will be launched at Parkdale Elementary School in Saint-Laurent (1475 Deguire Street) on Thursday, May 24 (6:45 pm to 8:00 pm). "There are so many children in this neighborhood and it's absolutely perfect for us. "It's just a really diverse beautiful community but we don't have the schools the suburban communities do and it just doesn't make any sense to me at all."Ĭhristine Dougan is already planning for her nine-month-old daughter's schooling. Jennifer Forbes, the mother of 15-month-old, agreed. "It was open when we moved here and I was hoping it would be open when we had kids and now it's closed," said Jennifer Bailey, the mother of a 21-month-old. About 25 babies and toddlers play with toys and listen to stories at the playgroup, a sign that neighbourhood is changing. Reopening the school seems to have the support of parents at the busy Parkdale Community Association playgroup. "We need to look at the choice that people are making within those communities as well so numbers themselves don't specifically explain where people are attending schools and what choices they are making about their child's education." 'It's just a really diverse beautiful community but we don't have the schools the suburban communities do and it just doesn't make any sense to me at all.'-Jennifer Forbes, parent Beyond that, we've had people say commuters, for example, would stop by, drop their kids off, go to work downtown," she said.īoard spokesman Ted Flitton said there is no guarantee all those children would attend a neighbourhood elementary school. "According to the survey, we have about 128 preschoolers in the neighborhood right now. Now the school is used for administrators with the Calgary Board of Education.Ĭlaudia Weigelsberger is leading the push to reopen Parkdale to students. Parkdale Elementary in northwest Calgary, south of the Foothills Medical Centre, closed in 2003 because it didn't have enough students. Parents in an inner-city neighborhood say it is attracting more young families and they want their community school back.
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