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Originally Posted by Rjcsjc62
Yeah West Calgary High School will be open in a year or two, but I wont need it for awhile. I guess what I need is a full time day care, and an elementary school. It appears that the designated school is Wildwood, which surprises me that they would have to go so far away. Infact they would have to drive past Olympic Heights and cross Sarcee to there.
My preconceived opinion of Cougar Ridge was that it was a community with alot of families and kids our ages.
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Donut Effect"
New communities on the edges of the city are built, marketed and sold as "family friendly," families move there, but before key infrastructure, perhaps most prominiently, schools, are in place. Usually the community has a "future school site" that is used heavily in marketing and it is implied that the actual school is "just around the corner" in terms of actually being built. Very often, when elementary schools are finally built, many of the kids that first moved to the community have passed or nearly-passed elementary age.
Meanwhile, elementary schools in older communities experience declining numbers (save for the kids being bussed in from the newer communities on the outskirts in some cases), and are at risk of being closed due to low population. while the outskirts scream for brand new schools. Eventually perfectly good (for the most part) schools are closed while brand new ones are built in Cougar Ridge (and the like). 20 years after that, the cycle continues when Cougar Ridge Elementary sees most of its kids bussed from elsewhere and then 35 years down the line, is closed due to low student population.
http://www.cwf.ca/V2/cnt/oped_mar_18_2002.php