CALGARY- Despite earlier assurances from the province, students at flood-damaged Elbow Park School won’t be back to class by September.
The plan was to house the elementary students in modular classrooms, which are being hastily erected at Earl Grey School in nearby Mount Royal. However, the portables still aren’t ready, meaning the children are being shuffled again.
“As soon as their modular is ready at the Earl Grey site, we will be moving all of them together into the modulars,” says Megan Geyer from the Calgary Board of Education. “When that happen—that I don’t know yet.”
Frustrated parents claim the entire project has been mismanaged by the government, and even went as far as to line up their own modular classrooms from ATCO.
Enzo Developments out of High River has the contract to build 54 classroom portables, at a rate of four per day. However, project managers say they’ve had difficulty getting the construction materials.
In the mean time, Elbow Park students will head to Eugene Coste School in Haysboro.
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