If it’s a split schedule, this certainly affects both lots of students from an academic point-of-view, but has anyone thought of the snowball effect it will have on community groups and programs?
Has anyone thought of how it will affect membership of say the minor hockey, gymnastics or sea cadet programs if high school students are in class until seven or eight o’clock?
Or how about the groups that depend on these students to fill their leadership, coaching or officials’ positions — whether it’s volunteer or paid?
Then, there are the students that are working part-time after school is out. Will they be able to do this? If not, then businesses are affected.
Another is the GC and St. Paul’s extra-curricular activities?
For starters, Ms. Fleet already said the GC gymnasium work wouldn’t be started until after school starts, leaving those varsity athletes, even if they are able to attend class at GC, without a gymnasium to practice or play in. This means trying to compact two schools’ varsity athletic programs into gym time at St. Paul’s, possibly extending the hours of usage for school athletes and affecting the operation of some of the community groups that rent time in the evenings.
If you take some time to think through the process of having a late opening at one school, or for that matter just one gymnasium, the snowball effect gets bigger and bigger with every thought.
Let’s hope the snowball doesn’t get too big before winter arrives, or a lot of people and groups could be left out in the cold.
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