Editor:
In your edition of Thursday, July 7 the statement is made that the school board said the number of students in Routley does not justify an elementary school.
I want to emphasize that the school board鈥檚 decisions are not based on recent data.
They based their statements on the number of students from Routley who go to other schools in the 91原创 area.
This does not include preschool children and students going from Routley to Surrey and even Abbotsford.
We talked to many disgruntled parents in Routley who drive their children to other schools than the 91原创 school district.
The school board鈥檚 calculations are incorrect and misleading.
I was personally involved in a survey counting the number of houses in Routley. A professional engineer and I went from house to house, and we compared the number with Google satellite images.
There are a total of 927 existing, occupied units and 212 future units.
At total build -out in the future, this means a total of 1139 units and a total population of 3,666 鈥� calculated at the standard 3.0 persons for townhouses.
Number of students: average 0.55 students/single family unit and 0.43/townhouse.
If there was a need for an elementary school in 2008, the need now, with more occupied houses, is even greater, not less.
The school board鈥檚 statement does not make any sense.
Dr. Petrus J. Pretorius
91原创
