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Lake Country’s school district trustee says adjustments to the catchment areas for the three elementary schools in Lake Country means the schools will remain open for the foreseeable future. Deb Butler says that’s her main takeaway after the Central Okanagan School Board voted to I think looking amend the catchment forward we’re areas for students attending Davidson Road, going to have Peter Greer and Oyama the population Traditional. to keep our ele“I think looking formentary schools ward we’re going to have the population to keep going and that’s our elementary schools important. You going and that’s importdon’t want to ant,” said Butler. “You start closing don’t want to start closing schools. Once you schools. Once close things it’s hard to you close things re-open.” it’s hard to reThe re-working of the open.” Lake Country catchDeb Butler ment areas was a long and bumpy process and necessary with much of the growth in Lake Country coming in the Davidson Road area. That school was over-capacity while the others had the room, but not the nearby population. An initial attempt to change the boundaries raised the ire of one Lake Country community and resulted in a heated school board meeting last year in Kelowna. The issue was tabled and the school district took much of the last year going back to the community, through Parent Advisory Councils, to try and find the right fit. “At the end of the day the community and the
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