But the lease expires this year and the Greater Victoria district plans to reclaim the building and reopen it next fall to deal with increasing enrolment and space pressures.
Beausoleil parents say their children are being treated like “second-class citizens” and will be moved to modular classrooms at Braefoot Elementary until a permanent francophone school gets built.
And they say that flies in the face of a Supreme Court of Canada decision last year that found francophone students are entitled to “an education experience that is substantively equivalent to the experience of the majority.”
Rebecca Mellett, who has a child in Grade 3 at École Beausoleil, said work has yet to begin on the temporary accommodations at Braefoot and parents are worried their children will have no place to go in September.
Camosun College president Sherri Bell plans to retire at the end of the year, drawing to a close a 40-year career as an educator and leader. Bell, 61, has been president of the community college . . .
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VANCOUVER Island Health has added another Victoria-area school to its online list of COVID-19 exposures. Someone who tested positive for the coronavirus was at View Royal Elementary School in View Royal on Wednesday, Jan. 27, according to the health authority. Members of the school community were notified of the exposure on Saturday. Those who are close contacts of the person or people who tested positive are being contacted directly by public health officials and instructed to self-isolate. People who are not contacted by public health are not considered to have had a high-risk exposure and should continue to attend school as long as they are not experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, according to Island Health.
An exposure refers to a single case within a school community. Island Health does contact tracing for any staff or students who may need to self-isolate or self-monitor for symptoms. Jaime Doyle, principal of Lake Cowichan School’s secondary section, said on Facebook that the exposure was “very limited” in scope and all possible contacts have been notified. “However, this is a good reminder to our community to not let their guard down and keep vigilant about mask wearing, hand washing and social distancing,” he said. COVID-19 exposure was also reported this week at Ecole Macaulay Elementary School in the Greater Victoria School District. Potential exposure dates were Jan. 20, 21 and 22.