U Hill Secondary parents hosted media representatives on a tour of the deplorable conditions at U Hill Secondary. Over the lunch hour parents and media reps stepped over and around students as they crowded into the school hallways and science labs to eat lunch.
"This is a good day," said school principal Jill Philipchuk. "On a rainy day you wouldn't be able to squeeze through here, " principal Philipchuk said.
"We forget we are eating on the floor," said Grade 12 student Robin Eder-Warren. "But when you find rat feces beside your lunch you figure out something is wrong!"
U Hill Secondary was built for 325 students over 50 years ago. Today it houses 560 plus students. Once a gem in the middle of a forest, today's school looks more like a neglected trailer park with nine portables and a decaying main building. A current VSB proposal would replace the school with a renovated former research building and convert the current high school into a second campus elementary school. The fate of the VSB proposal hangs in the air as Trustees deliberate in the face of significant opposition from Dunbar area residents opposed to UBC area developments.
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Man... beautiful.
If nothing happens to deal with this, I am - without any hint of exaggeration - going to cry.
The Province has announced a rebuilding program that is supposed to give us a new high school and new elementary school by the end of 2011.
We live and hope.
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