Students are back in their classrooms at Surrey’s Woodland Park Elementary School, more than five months after the school was badly damaged in a fire.
Since the fire in late January, classes were held in other schools and buildings.
Now that the repairs are complete, the students are back, but the school is still lacking basic school supplies, classroom materials and technology.
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The school has launched an online fundraiser to campaign for the supplies, but it has yet to reach its $35,000 goal.
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“The smoke damage and the soot damage went through the entire main building, so unfortunately we lost everything,” principal Lisa Chambers said.
“All the classroom teachers have lost their resources, their personal belongings, sentimental items.”
Woodland Park has more than 450 students from Kindergarten to Grade 7.
I’m curious, Karen Baker, if they are FUNDRAISING, how is the taxpayer on the hook?
Yes, why indeed isn’t insurance covering all costs? An update to this story is needed.
Taxpayers are not an empty bucket of money.
Or is it for personal belongings that the insurance won’t pay?
well it seems like there is endless taxpayer money because our omnipotent leaders are going to tear down a perfectly good high school in tumbler ridge all because some whackjob decided to go on a rampge
Why isn’t insurance covering the losses? Why do we need to fundraise when insurance should be paying, not the taxpayer, again.