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The Flin Flon School Board will sever its tuition agreement with the Creighton School Division in light of Creighton's decision to implement a high school program. The agreement, which states that Flin Flon will charge its average per-student cost for each Creighton pupil it enrolls, will be terminated effective July 1, 2005. "With the recent moves that Creighton has made, indicating to us that they're going to open their own high school . . . we wish, as a school board, then, to terminate this particular agreement," said Chairman Jim Wilson at Tuesday's board meeting, when the termination was approved. Wilson said the decision will not affect the high school tuition fees to be charged to Creighton for the 2005-06 school year, the final year Creighton will be without grade 12 programming. The termination means the two school divisions will have to reassess the future enrollment of any Saskatchewan students in Flin Flon. That includes the approximately 20 Creighton and Denare Beach children who take French Immersion at McIsaac School Ecole McIsaac. "The French Immersion situation hasn't been discussed at all, but what we're basically saying is, Creighton would then discuss the French Immersion students with us and decisions would be made," said Chairman Wilson. "It's not going to be automatic anymore. It's decisions that have to be made by both parties." Another issue that might have to be discussed relates to the future of any Saskatchewan students who are held back after their final year of high school in Flin Flon. Would they remain in Flin Flon or go back to Creighton? "It hasn't been discussed specifically, but if kids had spent all their high school years in Hapnot (Collegiate) . . . we would allow it," said Chairman Wilson. "Creighton would have to make that decision as well as to whether they would allow it, whether they would send the kids, because if they're coming to Hapnot, they would still have to be funded by Creighton." See 'Tuition' P.# Con't from P.# The agreement will not be terminated until July 1, 2005 because the Flin Flon School Board is required to give the Creighton division one year's notice. The agreement sets out two separate tuition rates: the average per-student cost at the high school level and the average per-student cost for French Immersion. French Immersion costs are higher, so Creighton pays more for students enrolled in that program. Creighton Community School will begin offering grade 10 programming this September, with grades 11 and 12 to follow in 2005 and 2006 respectively. This will end the decades' old practice of Creighton and Denare Beach students concluding their secondary schooling across the border.
