SUMMARY - Crumbling Classrooms
Water stains spread across ceiling tiles as a winter storm tests a roof that should have been replaced years ago. A portable classroom that arrived "temporarily" fifteen years ago still houses students through temperatures it was never designed to withstand. Wheelchair-using students cannot access second floors in buildings constructed before accessibility codes existed. Across Canada, school facility conditions vary enormously—and students in deteriorating buildings receive education shaped by that deterioration.