A school that never reopens

Académie de Roberval is a big school building located behind Jean‑Talon hospital in Villeray. It’s been boarded up for years, so students who are nominally enrolled there have been going to classes – sometimes in cramped windowless classrooms – at Georges‑Vanier high school instead. Many will graduate never having set foot in their school, and they’d like something more than empty promises that it will be revived.