It’s done – the final submission has been assembled and is now in the hands of the Annapolis Valley Regional School Board. We have posted it in it’s entirety… follow this link to view the components:

FINAL SUBMISSION

If you feel strongly about the value of retaining our rural schools, it is important that you express your views to the School Board and our Elected Officials in Government.

To this end, click here for a list of appropriate contacts with their information.

Let them know what is important to you!

This just in… the survey results have been tallied and are now available for your viewing pleasure (below)!

As you read through the survey results, you will see questions where people were asked to score a certain option on a scale of 1-5. Just so it makes more sense to you, below is the “recipe” for this scoring system…

On to the survey results…

   Adult Survey          Student Survey

Enjoy!

We have added another page to the Blog -  Other Documents & Info with various documents or information that is of interest. For example, there now is information circulated by the School Board about priorities for capital projects. We’ll add more ot this page as it becomes available.

Ain’t technology wonderful? The survey link we posted a couple days ago worked fine, for a while… but no longer. So we have updated survey links for you below:

Youth survey:

http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/103156/aafs-student

 Adult survey:

http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/103555/aafs-adult

The Steering Committee has been hard at work, looking at all the feedback, ideas and comments and formulating a DRAFT proposal. And now we are looking for more feedback! Have a look on the Draft Proposal page, and please provide feedback, either via this blog, or the many other options available to you (all listed on on the Draft Proposal page for your convenience).

Feedback is requested by February 19th! Thanks!

ARRA - Jan 2009

Once you read about the issues facing us, you realize the enormity of the situation facing the school board in trying to maintain our schools with a dramatically declining student population. There are no easy answers. But thank you to the School Board for being proactive enough to provide each community with a very comprehensive “report card” on the state of each school,  with some statistical information, and for providing the communities with ample time to review these documents and provide feedback.

And thank you also to Grant Dares, John Kinsella and other community-minded individuals who saw that some leadership  was needed in the Annapolis Royal area in order to develop a community proposal for submission to the Board.

There is no easy answer, and in the end I suspect the answer will involve a number of different approaches. But this community has always been creative, has always come up with innovative ways to accomplish things that other communities only dream of. We need to put that creativity to work now to find a way to create a sustainable Annapolis Area Family of Schools. So let’s get at it!

All for now.

Trish

Welcome to the Blog for the Annapolis Area Family of Schools, a group dedicated to the future of the schools in and around Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia.