At Nova Scotia's West Kings High School, students and parents have been trying for years to get their school fixed. We've had letter-writing campaigns to the Ministry of Education. But there are too many aging schools in Nova Scotia. Renovations are expensive. The Nova Scotia provincial government says it's a billion-dollar problem, and the province doesn't have enough money to fix all the schools.
West Kings is just one school on a very long list.
The provincial education department says the necessary work will be done over the next ten years, which isn't much consolation for Crawford, who graduates next year. The problem of too many old schools, not enough money is mirrored in other provinces across Canada. Students and parents, teachers and administrators, and even governments know there are problems with aging schools. An old building is still an old building, no matter what you spend on it. But many people didn't start to realize it until people started to get sick and mould was discovered in many buildings.