The closure of Phoenix Elementary marks the end of at least twenty years of alternative schooling in SD64
The Gulf Islands School District will close Phoenix Elementary School on Salt Spring Island after no one enrolled in classes this year at the last publicly funded alternative school in the district.
“It’s been kind of a quiet movement over the past few years towards that lower number,” Deacon said. “Everyone was looked after.” The district had also previously been in charge of Windsor House, an alternative school in North Vancouver known for its “democratic” parent-participation practices until 2019.
“At the end of its life, there wasn’t much setting it aside from any of the other elementary schools.” Glimpses of the school’s more exciting past can still be seen on Phoenix-affiliated websites. In 2013, “someone dropped off 11 roosters one day,” leading students to look after the birds for the rest of the school year, according to a website chronicling the history of Gulf Island school gardens.
But parental involvement slowed down over the years and eventually turned the school into more of a “pick-up and drop-off” site, Boulter said.
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