EMSB votes to trade Galileo away
The English Montreal School Board has voted to transfer the north-end Galileo building to the Pointe-de-l’Île board, thereby saving three other schools but displacing a group of special-needs students.
Update: This may not be the end of it. The education minister wants those three schools and is probably going to get them.
jeather 07:59 on 2019-05-22 Permalink
Amazing how the solution is always to punish the special needs group. (Not in Montreal specifically, everywhere.) I hope that the ministry pushes back against that.
So interesting that the overcrowded EMSB schools don’t get the ministry just fixing it without notice, though.
Ian 13:35 on 2019-05-22 Permalink
As a parent of a special needs kid I hear you, jeather. That said, this was a huge railroad move by the CAQ right after the Riverdale “fuck you” and the EMSB has unsurprisingly been freaking out. I’ve been following this as it unrolled, it’s been covered extensively on CBC radio for a couple of months now – the EMSB has been struggling to offer underpopulated space for the French school board, and the Galileo school was pretty much empty whereas the other 3 schools are neighbourhood anchor schools. The CAQ wants the populated schools for mysterious reasons but the EMSB is pushing for this space instead, and that the CAQ might accept it would be a huge acknowledgement of the reality of Anglo culture outside of central Montreal. In any case, the CAQ is being super unreceptive (big surprise) and the EMSB will probably get another “fuck you”.