Cam Johnson Asks:
What are your thoughts on the overcrowding of many of the cities school’s? And what can be done to help that problem?
We definitely have a problem in several areas of our city with overcrowding in our schools. What we need in order to alleviate this problem is new schools in several of our expanding urban areas. (i.e. Juniper Ridge, Pineview, and Bachelor Heights). To make this happen, we need to continue to lobby the Provincial Government, not only for Capital Funding, but to get them to look at Kamloops' enrolment separate from the rest of our large school district. When looking at our district as a whole (rural and urban), our enrolment issues looks manageable. When looking strictly at Kamloops' enrolment, one can quickly see that overcrowding in our schools is becoming an increasing problem that is not going to solve itself over time.