Parents vent anger with ‘middle school’ decision
Aldergrove Star
January 28, 2009
By: Erin Williamson, Aldergrove

Editor:

Our entire school community has been thrown into desperation and chaos!

… Families, school staff and the students in Aldergrove felt secure that the middle school was a “done deal” and threw their heart and soul into preparing for all aspects of the transition. The transition in Aldergrove was well underway.  Families moved their children this past September in anticipation of the middle school in September 2009.  A popular preschool and child care centre moved to another Aldergrove elementary school in anticipation of the middle school in September 2009. 

These trustees promised if they were elected, they would listen to parents, yet less than an hour after hearing from parent representatives from the four Aldergrove schools involved speak very favourably about the progress of the middle school planning and transition, they chose to vote against the community’s voice.

It makes me wonder who the trustees were listening to, or if they were even bothering to listen at all.