Only 18 students are enrolled at Port Renfrew Elementary School, making it one of the least-populated schools on Vancouver Island.
A whopping 18 students are enrolled there, making it one of the least-populated schools on Vancouver Island.
“It’s small and you can know everyone in it,” said Danaya Joe, a Grade 3 student at the school on the southwest coast.Despite the tiny class size, energy emanates through the hallways, where students can be heard laughing and working together to answer teachers’ questions.“There’s some real power with those smaller numbers.
“I remain cautiously optimistic that they see the need and the desire,” SD62 board of education chair Ravi Parmar said.Pacheedaht Chief Jeff Jones said the new school would sit near the town’s gas station, which is outside of the tsunami zone. “If an earthquake ever hits Pacheedaht, our community would definitely go straight down because we’re living on sand,” Jones said.
He’s eager to replace the kindergarten-to-Grade 5 school, while maintaining the sense of community within it.“As a small community, you seem to connect a little closer than living in a place like Victoria or Vancouver… so there’s that much more room to create relationships.”
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