To the editor:
Re: "VSB chair explains Kitchener decision," Letters, Nov. 25.
Thank you Ms. Bacchus for taking the time to respond to my concern over VSB preservation of the "heritage" school house at Lord Kitchener elementary school. The point of my complaint is simply this: the consistent underfunding of education in this province that has resulted in school closures to save maintenance and other costs, the lack of funding for learning assistants for special needs children, laidoff librarians, shortages of text books and other scholastic materials, overcrowded classrooms, extensive use of portable classrooms and the continuing east-west differential in school equipment and student performance, to name a few impediments to an educational system of which we can be proud, surely calls for a funding priority where "heritage preservation" should be way down the list of where educational dollars should be spent. While seismic upgrading is vitally important and should be a high priority, I do not see that a costly rebuilding of a 1914 wood-frame school house is at all related to this necessity.
Bruce Levens, Vancouver
