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10. School Boards should not be running recreation classes for adults.
This is in direct competition and duplication of services provided by recreation departments, senior citizen centers, libraries, museums, and hosts of other public and private services. In the current calendar (80 pg) for fall 2008, the West Vancouver School Board classes include:
Yoga, Quilting, Poker. Social polish for the holidays, Antiques shopping field trip, Conspiracy theories, Floral design.
Sure, classes are held mainly in the evenings and in the schools. But, these community facilities can easily be used and scheduled by the Municipal Recreation Department. And, the Curriculum Center, intended for teachers, is also heavily booked for these day classes.
Are these programs cost recovery? I don’t see how they could be. The big cost, from the community oversight point-of-view, is the time and energy spent by staff and trustees involved in this inappropriate effort which seriously detracts and diverts from the primary intended purpose of education of students in their jurisdiction.
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