EMSB confirms school closures

CBC has reported that parents and students stormed out of an English Montreal School Board meeting on Wednesday evening. This was following administrators’ confirmation that Saint Brendan and Saint John Bosco schools will be closing.

The EMSB meeting, which took place at Rosemont High School, also saw the closure of several other schools. Fraser Academy, Nesbitt School and James Lyng High School will also be closing.

Parents and city councilors were opposed to the modified plans that the school board mentioned during public consultations in December.

The EMSB is citing a decline in enrolment as the reason behind school closures and relocations. Enrolment is said to have dropped twenty per cent in the last decade.