The superintendent of the South Shore Regional School Board says it’s business as usual.
The Town of Bridgewater is planning to file an injunction to stop the board’s transition team from preparing to move grade 10-12 students from Bridgewater Junior-Senior High to Park View.
There have been three transition meetings so far with another scheduled next week.
The town wants the team to halt its work until the request for a judicial review is heard at Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Bridgewater on December 20.
Although concerns from town council have been about the school review process, Scott Milner believes they are more concerned about its outcome.
“If the outcome was that the (grades) 10-12’s of Bridgewater were staying where they were and the town was concerned about the process, would they be pursuing this judicial review and injunction, regardless?”
Milner says the board has thoughtfully and carefully reviewed all information and is confident the board made the right decision.
The school options committee recommended to the school board to send stduents from BJSHS to PVEC.
However, a notice for judicial review filed by the town’s solicitor on November 10 lists several grounds including the school board and the appointed SOC failed to properly follow the school review policy.
Other reasons listed include a school review process that was fundamentally flawed because the SOC was too large, renovations at Park View started before the review was complete and the board failed to implement recommendations by Consultant Alphonse MacNeil after his independent report.
Milner says it’s disappointing that the school board is in this position and want to have a positive relationship with the town’s mayor and council.
