  The Lethbridge Herald reported ysterday that 70% of attendees to yesterday’s Catholic-public school board open house meeting voted to turn down the P3 proposal. The P3 proposal would see funding for a new high school in West Lethbridge coming from the private sector. The high school would be jointly run on a contract/lease basis by both school boards and would include a second branch of the municipal library.
The Chinook Health Region, the University of Lethbridge and Lethbridge Community College would also participate in the programmes at the institution. Of course, since we live in a country that values its socialist ideas (health care, education, etc), many of the local citizens are afraid, for whatever reason, what such a partnership would produce.
Since the province refuses to send money to the third-largest city in Alberta for a high-school to serve a population on the Westside of over 20,000 people (including over 1,000 students who get bussed to the Southside each day), this was our only option. Oh well, the students have been taking the bus for years now. What’s a few more? After all, they’re teenagers, so what they need doesn’t matter. Just like the Westside skate park. But that’s a post for another day. urlLink Read more... 
