Mr. Paul Crone:

It also comes back to the vision piece as to what we see and want from our education system. As my colleague, Mr. McKelvey said, it is around schools being reflective of the community in which they are situated. The school should be a mirror image of the community it serves and it should be available for the students who live locally. It builds that sense of community and sense of spirit. As children grow up they will know children who live near them. If our vision is very clearly that we want to create equality of opportunity, then this criterion has very little relevance to that. The local children will gain access to the local school through other criteria such as living locally or attending feeder schools.