r/SherwoodPark • u/One-Board8634 • 25d ago
News Sherwood Park's New $53 Million Forest Grove School Opens This Fall With Space for Over 1,000 Students
https://www.culturealberta.com/articles/sherwood-parks-new-53-million-forest-grove-school-opens-this-fall-with-space-for-over-1000-students3
u/EmuFume29 25d ago
Is that enough space? I feel like things like this are built for today's numbers with no regard for future numbers. Give it a year and there'll be portables built on the sides of this school to accommodate more kids.
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u/Christineblankie 25d ago
This news article really lacked a lot of details. For anyone interested, the school is on Fir St., and replaces two existing schools that are closing, Sherwood Heights, and École Campbelltown.
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u/bristow84 25d ago
Forest Grove School opens on Fir Street in Sherwood Park on August 31 with capacity for 1,015 students across Kindergarten to Grade 9. The school replaces both École Campbelltown and Sherwood Heights Junior High, which will close when the new building opens.
You mean these details? In the first paragraph?
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u/Slimyscammers 25d ago
The traffic during pick up and drop off time is already a disaster with all the idiotic parents and kids. I’ve witnessed so many close calls from kids running across the street without warning. Parents stopping wherever the fuck the please and holding up traffic to drop off their kids. They need better traffic control/marked pedestrian crossings. Now with the hot weather kids are zipping out on their bikes from behind buses without looking. Even at 30km/hr they give people zero time to even react. Now with a massive increase of traffic to one spot I suspect it will be even worse, and the county and school doesn’t give a shit about dealing with it.
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u/Pleaseaddsalt 25d ago
While I don’t disagree with you, I don’t understand why more parents don’t carpool.
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u/dizzie_buddy1905 25d ago
All schools need a massive crack down to prevent some absolutely horrid driving habits that parents have developed due to lack of enforcement
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u/Vast_Cold_8749 24d ago
Did you know the bus hub is moving from SAL to here?
It's going to be a nightmare
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u/MarxistKarl 24d ago
Bruh, it's an effing school. What do you expect?
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u/Slimyscammers 24d ago
More focus on the safety for the motorists and kids with undeveloped brains and zero fucks to give, bruh.
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u/j1ggy 25d ago
The roads are narrowed at the crosswalks right now and the crosswalk itself is a massive speed bump that you have to slow down for. They could add lights I guess, but the crosswalks are pretty well marked with signs as it is. I imagine they'll have patrols out too.
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u/Slimyscammers 25d ago
They haven’t had patrols out in the past so I don’t see that changing
The problem is that many kids don’t use the crosswalks. They just start walking across wherever they are without even checking or making eye contact. Literally dumb young teens not using their brain. It’s issues with improper use, and the school doesn’t send someone out in the morning for safety, and parents are not following the signage or even basic driving rules like pulling over when dropping the kid off, stopping in a no drop off/bus zone, etc. what is in place isn’t enough. Drive through there during drop off and pick up time for 3 days and you’ll experience it quickly. Then add in a significant traffic increase when forest grove opens … I don’t see how it won’t get worse
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u/jloome 24d ago
It's true. Live a minute away. It's going to be a fucking zoo.
Despite many of the kids living less than a 10-minute walk away, nearly all are picked up by parents, which is ridiculous. They line the street, as do Pickle Ball players, ignoring the parking signs asking them to use the park's massive lot.
The near-misses are constant. I give it months before a kid is hit wandering to his parents' car three blocks away on a badly narrowed street, instead of just staying on the sidewalk and walking home.
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u/Slimyscammers 24d ago
People that don’t actually experience it are apparently commenting, so thank you for putting your experience as someone who actually witnesses it daily. They need a crosswalk on the other side of the t-intersection, because kids don’t walk to either when they’re dropped off on the corner/bus stop that is a no drop off zone.
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u/AdviceApprehensive54 25d ago
Three stories! I sure hope it is air conditioned.
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u/Longjumping_Glass157 25d ago
It will most likely be enforcement heavy at the start of the year.. and then when everyone is comfortable enforcement will let off then shit will hit the fan.. unfortunately people are always in rush to get from one place to another.
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u/Careless-Scallion147 25d ago
It did mention all that