Re: “City attracts young families, compounding school crisis; Census” Jan. 14
Dear editor,
The City View reported “more than 30 per cent of Airdrie residents are school aged or will be going to school within the next five years according to the 2010 Airdrie Census.”
Twenty-one per cent are currently in school and nine-and-a-half per cent are preschool age.
By simply adding these two numbers together, the paper is assuming none of the children currently in Grades 8 through 12 will graduate and leave the school system in the next five years.
Too often the Airdrie schools have manipulated statistics to exaggerate the case for new schools. Airdrie has the fastest rate of growth, but does not have the greatest number of new residents or new school age children.
As Paul Lutus says in his essay Evolution, “Another, more general thing to know about mathematics is that, if you don’t learn it, people will successfully lie to you for your entire life.”
John McMurray,
RR 2, Airdrie
