With overcrowded schools and construction still years away, families in Vancouver’s Olympic Village gathered Saturday to demand urgent action on a long-promised neighbourhood school.

Around 100 parents and children assembled in the morning at Hinge Park — the designated site for the school — urging the city to approve rezoning and pressing the province to accelerate construction.

“A school was promised when Olympic Village was built, yet all we’ve seen are shifting timelines,” said rally organizer Sarah Pawliuk, whose daughter has just started kindergarten.

“The school is urgently needed to relieve the severe overcrowding already straining every nearby school — a crisis that will only get worse as the Broadway plan brings thousands of new families to the area.”

Currently, families livi

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