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Originally Posted by OldDartmouthMark
Your post seemed promising in that it brings about a situation that I’ve been wondering about. It seems like the government has just finished the process of purging old school sites to be turned into housing because of a population boom, but it seems that nobody connected the dots to realize that record populations are going to need more schools in their neighbourhoods. Especially given the recent (mislabelled) “lack of fertility” media reports saying that Canadians are not having as many children because of choices, costs, etc, but adding the subtext at the end that immigrant families statistically tend to have more children than families who originate from Canada. Well it would seem that our extremely large increase in population logically (and anecdotally) must be due mostly to immigration… so maybe we will need more schools? But… they have systematically removed those prime school sites from public ownership, so they will never be schools again. I think it’s a topic worth discussing.
Then you lost me by turning your post into a comment laced with boomophobia…  |
I must confess, I sometime stoop to the low of thinly veiled boomerphobia when my real intention is to unmask our various levels of governments' woeful inadequacy in preparing for demographic change / collapse. I look at the many issues rattling through our economy right now and that seems to be the common denominator.
In the longer run we would expect many of the younger immigrants who have recently arrived will have kids who need schooling ... but depending how well they assimilate we may be surprised. Very few of my peers now almost 30 are having kids or even thinking about kids on the near horizon, and few realize that means they'll likely miss the window to have kids at all. It's a real problem in my book.
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