That's just because they've been doing nothing for decades, and are all out of ideas.
This isn't complicated. Build more schools, hire sufficient staff. It keeps getting worse because those are the two things they never do.
Why we don't build a standard school design across the province to reduce engineering and materials costs is beyond me. Yes, one size doesn't fit all, but you could easily make them in ways that allow for variances. Instead we have god knows how many different school boards all doing their own thing and efficiencies go out the window. There are ways to reduce costs, but they involve simplifying and consolidating our school system, and we must have one of the most disparate and complex in the developed world. For example, Canmore has three different school systems and six schools all over the valley. Busing costs and logistics alone eat up resources, and you don't have the flexibility to move teachers between school systems. Then you duplicate administration, and it all starts to get silly and expensive.
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