Allen Kinnear
Dear editor:
With the Rainy River District School Board being in the spotlight, I have a question regarding a different matter.
Why is it that new schools are being built in Fort Frances—again—while Donald Young School in Emo is in a great need of a new school but is not seeing any improvement!
In what way do they decide to build a new school? Does the school have to be located in Fort Frances for this to happen? It seems to me that this is what always occurs.
I thought we were a part of the Rainy River District School Board, too.
It wasn’t long ago they had to run electric heaters with extension cords across the wet floor to have heat of some kind in one room, and it would continue all winter long. Children were dressing in layers while their sitting in their classrooms.
Donald Young is in need of a new school. When will it be our turn, or will it never come?
We have classes taking place in a portable, where it is very cold. Our library had to be relocated so we could accommodate the kindergarten children. The computer lab is extremely warm. And the windows, I am sure, have been there since the building was first built.
Maybe the large amount of bullying that takes place in this school would improve if there was a sufficient amount of space so they could be separated and not disrupting the other classmates trying to learn.
I do want to commend the great teaching staff at this school for all their hard work and helping attitude towards their students.
It is not Donald Young the building that is making that place a school, it is the teachers.
(Signed),
Allen Kinnear
Emo, Ont.
