This small B.C. school is tripping over twins
CBC
For a school the size of Parkview Elementary in Sicamous, B.C., having two or three sets of twins is not uncommon. However, teachers at the school of 205 students are tripping over twins this year with six sets to begin the 2021-22 school year — a figure that caught principal Carla Schneider by surprise when she looked at the class lists.
"It seems like an anomaly," Schneider said.
"If my math is correct that's one in 17 students in the school that is a twin."
The global rate of twinning has increased by a third since the 1980s — from 9.1 sets per 1,000 deliveries to 12, according to a study released earlier this year.
Researchers cite the rise in medically assisted reproduction and delayed childbearing as factors.
That works out to a rate of one child in every 42 being born a twin, which means Parkview Elementary is bucking the twin trend.
"In my 25 years of education, I've never seen anything like this," said Schneider.
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