Posterity integral to Vic High history

Re: “Choose education over preservation,” editorial, May 25.

Posterity — that’s the word embodied in Victoria High School.

Posterity was hand-wrought into the architectural creation of Vic High. What new, 50-year-lifespan, value-engineered, replacement school could hope to match the expression of self-assured endurance presented at Grant and Camosun streets?

Posterity was the value that moved our grandparents when they expectantly supported and paid taxes for Vic High’s development, watching its construction from their new home a block away.

Posterity continued its course, as they produced their seven offspring — who would all spend formative years attending the school.

Posterity provided a guiding credo, as that second generation watched gathering clouds, and signed on to serve in the Second World War, following recruitment campaigns at Vic High.

Posterity would renew itself again, as most of our family’s third generation would again attend Vic High, and then seek our own paths forward.

Posterity — how contrasting to today’s current overused, and almost meaningless, valuator: sustainability. Posterity looks both back to its past and ahead to its future.

Posterity — is this not a precept that should be expected to be integral to that other high-toned aspiration of our times: education?

Retaining at least major portions of the exterior facades of Vic High seems appropriate — for posterity.

Chris Gower Victoria