Breaking News:
Just learned that the Blyth School was sold at auction for $210,000. I have no word as to who bought it.
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Today an on site auction is taking place to mark the end of over 150 years of education provided in our community of Blyth, Ontario.
Our school is being sacrificed to help pay for a new monster school which will actually not be completed for the next school year. The new school will be known as the Maitland River Elementary School . Although only a portion of our children will be attending this school; most will be bused south to the tiny village of Londesborough which is in the next municipality. Some classes will apparently be relegated to portables.
The decision to close our only school was taken by the Avon Maitland District School Board on which we have no active representation. School board members tend to support their own community and ignore all the others. The board is best described as a group of money-grubbing leeches.
The whole exercise began several years ago to address the issue of declining enrollment in our schools. The decision to build a monster school (24-rooms) in the midst of a situation which apparently already had too many schools and too few children, seems to defy logic.
Turns out that in this particular adventure, declining enrollments were not the issue at all. Board members from Huron County felt that since Perth County got a new school last year, their county should get a new school this year. Thus a completely unnecessary school is being built in Wingham as a multi-million dollar monument to a handful of school board members who really represent no one but themselves.
The board steals our school grabs the money and leaves the property up to chance as to whether the highest bidder will use the property for the betterment of this community or its degradation.
Remember when we used to refer to school board members as "trustees"?
Brock Vodden
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