Thank you, Mr. Minister. Mr. Cleveland.
Debates of Feb. 28th, 2001
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Cleveland
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The utilization rate, as the Minister indicated, is the total number of spaces available divided by the number of students actually there. We update those numbers annually, so we would be looking at the numbers that we currently have as we reach next fall as well. Generally speaking, as Mr. Devitt indicated, we look at construction or renovations when we are somewhere in the 85 to 90 percent utilization level. We are a little bit below that right now, but we will continue to monitor it. Thank you.
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Steven Nitah Tu Nedhe
Thank you. Was the determination of how many students can be placed in the class determined in 1985 when the school was built?
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Cleveland
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The calculation utilization is done based on our current standards. Thank you.
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Steven Nitah Tu Nedhe
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. So the current standards of the student-teacher ratio of 16 to one, is that the current standard they are using?
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Cleveland
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The standards are the capital standards that we have for all our school facilities. Most classrooms are constructed based on an expected class size of about 22 students per classroom. There are some smaller spaces in the school in our capital standards with about 11. Thank you.
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Steven Nitah Tu Nedhe
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. As part of the utilization, do they use projections? How many kids are being born in the community and how many kids will be entering the school system, et cetera?
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Cleveland
Yes, Mr. Chairman. We look at actual births as well as projections. As I mentioned before, we also do that on an annual basis. We involve the divisional education council and the staff in the community to assist in that process. Thank you.
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Steven Nitah Tu Nedhe
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Having 22 students per class, how many different grade levels are there per class? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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Jake Ootes Yellowknife Centre
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. That depends on the location and varies according to the school and the community. There could be a number of levels, Mr. Chairman. Thank you.
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Steven Nitah Tu Nedhe
Mr. Chairman, I think we are talking about the school in Lutselk'e and not various locations. I was pretty specific as to which school I was referring to. It is the Lutselk'e school. Thank you.
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Jake Ootes Yellowknife Centre
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We do not have that particular detail here. We can get it for the Member, Mr. Chairman. We just do not know what the mix of classes is in Lutselk'e.
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Steven Nitah Tu Nedhe
I would appreciate that information, although I probably know it, but it is good to have it on hard copy, Mr. Chairman. I would suggest that there could be anywhere between three and four grade levels that are in the same class. Couple that with special needs students, et cetera, putting pressures on the teachers. I spoke about that today in my Member's statement.
We are looking at a low level of graduation from our high schools, especially from those communities such as Lutselk'e. These are some of the symptomatic problems that I believe are resulting in the low graduation levels, resulting in low education levels, resulting in low professional levels of our people working on our behalf in our community governments, et cetera. Still, we use the utilization number to defend that we cannot invest into badly needed renovations or expansions of our schools. We know the problems, yet we defend it.
I do not understand where the department is coming from. Can I get some kind of commitment from the Minister that he will look into this, maybe even commit to me that he will visit Lutselk'e and take a tour around the school and get to know the teachers and the students a little bit more and really listen to the requests of the DEA personally? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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