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Who considers :
school obsolete?

Dear Editor:

I am responding to the rece
letter in the North Shore News
from’ Susan Geddes regarding the
replacement of © _ Burrard View
School. .

Ms. Geddes claims that Burrard
View=S School has been considered

obsolete since 1974. One must ask.

by whom this school was consid-
-ered obsolete.

same time as Westview School.
. Compared to Lynn Valley Elemen-
“tary, built, in’ 1910, Ridgeway
(1911), Lonsdafe (1911), Queen ;
Mary (1914) and. Capilano (1924), :
the school is ‘still comparatively
new.’
“Whilst parents such as Ms.
- Geddes claim for their children the
oright:“‘to be educated in a safe, |
stimulating environment," past i in-

‘Burrard ~ View
School was built in 1946 about! the»

building inspector and the school
board's own inspe tors have failed
to reveal any serious deficiencies i in
the building.

spections by fs marshalls,

The Deep Cove sthool might not

be perfect, but neither is the Lynn
Valicy school nor {the schools in
North Vancouver City which are
almost twice the ag of the Deep
Cove school.

Deep Cove which dimands a new

Perhaps it is only: i lifestyle i in *

school every 30 yearq or. so, whilst -

residents in Lynn Valley and North
{Vancouver City have| lower expec-
tations. Or perhaps it! was that two

vociferous school trustees until

recently lived in that é

loud: in’ i

best*’ for their own children.
Ernie Sassfieid

North Vancouver --

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