Dear editor:

In response to Royal Oak celebrating its 10-year anniversary of a not-for-profit community school in Old Town:

Royal Oak prides itself on being a community school, but is it really a community when you have to pay to be a part of it?

We could send our kids there, but we believe strongly in the right to a public education. If we chose to buy into a private school, this would just divert students and minimize the need for more schools in town and reduce our leverage against the school board.

Yes, I admire that there was no “sulking” and they took the matters into their own hands.

However, that determination could have been used by filing a formal complaint against the board, which would easily prove that they did not appropriately consult the parent and Indigenous communities with an accommodation review, overruled the Governance Act of 2009, as well as ignored the last 15 years worth of census showing youth population growth, and the decision would be reversed.

Lauren Bubnič
NOTL