Comment 93449

By bikehounds (anonymous) | Posted October 21, 2013 at 09:52:02 in reply to Comment 93236

I'll start with what progressive vision DOESN'T look like - building new mega-schools which require bussing students in lieu of maintaining existing walkable neighbourhood schools - perhaps with creative uses to get through the wax and wane of enrollment numbers.

Schools can and should be used as tools to help direct the population patterns in the city. By shutting down schools in neighbourhoods that would be easy to densify, we make it much more difficult to create that density later on. We should be improving the schools in areas where we want to encourage more people to move - namely, neighbourhoods where the infrastructure is already in place rather than areas where we have to incur huge new infrastructure costs in order to fill new schools.

The city is a system and the schools can't be treated as if they were on secluded desert islands.

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