Regina school forced to use library, teachers’ lounge as classrooms

A Regina simple schoolhouse has been forced to person unconventional spaces into classrooms to accommodate a increasing fig of students.

A surge successful enrolment has forced Jack Mackenzie School to crook the library, creation workplace and unit lounge into classrooms.

It’s leaving 1 genitor acrophobic astir the interaction it is having connected education.

“It conscionable doesn’t look similar it should beryllium an option,” Jaclyn Gan said. “To beryllium capable to instrumentality implicit a room arsenic a schoolroom abstraction … I conscionable don’t consciousness similar that’s the close determination to beryllium making.”

Gan has 2 students attending the school, and said she is frustrated with the unit being felt successful the schoolroom for students and staff.

“I consciousness atrocious for the teachers arsenic good due to the fact that they’re conscionable having to bash much with less,” she said. “The pupil numbers are expanding and truthful are the complexities and it’s conscionable a batch to enactment connected the teachers. It’s affecting everyone’s education.”

Currently the program is to person portable classrooms successful spot by January.

Saskatchewan schools person had an overcrowding contented for a fig of years now, with adjacent caller schools forced to adhd portables conscionable months aft the schools open.

Regina Public Schools (RPS) said it is moving to bash what it can.

“We’re adding astir 800 students immoderate fixed year, truthful this evidently puts unit connected existing infrastructure,” Mark Haarmann, the RPS manager of education, said.

“Eight 100 kids is astir the size of an simple school. Growth is simply a happening that we’re moving precise hard to negociate with the metropolis and the state but it’s hard to support up.”

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Haarmann stressed that the pupil acquisition remains a apical priority, but learning volition proceed successful alternate spaces for the clip being.

“We are advocating with the province, with the metropolis to get different sites built,” Haarmann said. “In the meantime, (we’re) having the assurance for parents that the acquisition is archetypal rate.”

Last week the state announced that 2 caller schools would beryllium coming to Regina’s Towns neighbourhood. However, it volition instrumentality a fewer years of operation earlier they invited successful caller students, which is causing unit astatine Jack Mackenzie.

“There’s a batch of kids and they’re coming from that territory due to the fact that determination aren’t immoderate schools determination yet,” Gan said of the Towns area.

“I don’t cognize astir the readying portion of it but it conscionable seems similar it’s 2 years excessively precocious astatine this point.”