dbd33

If that is the case, then why is the school district such a prominent feature of property adverts?

Shard

The same reason a scruffy backyard is a blank canvas. Real estate marketing!

Obviously some parents are highly focussed on a particular school (and rightly so) but I think by and large Novo's assessment is accurate. Certainly not misleading.

gryphea

Just to answer the OP's original question. Many schools in Calgary simply aren't in the FI reports because they are K-3 or k-4 and they have to be K-6 to fit into the FI reporting. The do Provincial acheivment tests in 3 and 6 and without both those they don't fit into the rubric.

Personally, of the areas you mention, i am not sure I would go to the areas with brand news schools. These are all huge and over subscribed; consequently it can be tough on kids. Here, and this is quite alien to people in UK, they often mix the classes up entirely every year. At one of those big schools an aquaitances daughter was not only put into a Gr1 class with none of her friends from KG, she was also shifted to be at differnt recess and lunchtimes, so she never set eyes on her old friends in school again that year.

I would consider one of the slightly older areas slightly further in

ExKiwilass

I don't agree - this is a Toronto thing not a Canada thing.

ExKiwilass

+1.

Houses around here go for 1M + - school results aren't that good, but (some) realtors talk about it anyway.

The4BellsLondon

Sorry east van s chill but not DtEs

JonboyE

But, if schools reflect the socio/economic status of their intake (which seems to be incontrovertible) surely this is the best way for a new immigrant to make sure their progeny get into a suitable school.

Alan2005

As long as those immigrants know their place and don't get uppity and start wanting to get their kids into better schools than their socio/economic status deserves.

Oink

Most immigrants find housing they can afford. Canada isn't Monaco, most emigrate here because they're poor.

dbd33

I'd have thought people would want to send their children to schools in more affluent areas than where they can afford to live and, in the case of immigrants, there'd be a particular need to do so in order to get the children into a school where many students have English (or French) as a first language. That's why the buses from Scarborough to Toronto are full of kids in the morning, their parents have hyped them into schools in the Beach. I'm sure Vancouver has poor immigrant areas and that parents there try to get their kids into schools in other neighbourhoods where there's money and non-immigrant students.

I suppose it depends to what degree immigrant parents want to see their children adopt local customs, if fluency in English isn't primarily important and especially if there's a concern about potential loss of religion or other customs, then, yes, the local school is probably the suitable one. In our case, it was the other way around, we had to send the children to a school in another district to have the best chance that they not go native.

ExKiwilass

It's like you're talking about a different country, honestly.

ExKiwilass

I'm trying to remember - is it you that has the kid at UBC? Was it disappointing to you that she just ended up at a cradle uni not a prestigious US one?

Shard

Speechless

ExKiwilass

Well, if one, as a british immigrant, aspires to overcome one's humble beginnings and scale the ladder of society, the last thing one would do is send one's progeny to a local cradle-infested education establishment. That would never do.

ExKiwilass

and before everyone goes oooh kiwilass is mean I'm totally kidding.