Delays in delivering public schools amid growing population ‘exacerbates disparities within communities’, councils warn
councils, including Penrith, Camden, Wollondilly and Hawkesbury, which are in areas held by the Coalition.
“This means that some 2,000 students leave the shire every day, attending at least 27 different high schools,” they said in the submission. “[T]his will see at least an additional 54,000 people in the Wollondilly area of Greater Macarthur. Schools must be planned now and sequenced according to growth so that the 2,000 [student] deficit does not continue and grow,” they said.
In the growth area of Schofields, in the north-west, the first Catholic school was built in 1996 – almost two decades before a public school was established in 2015. That focus had “diverted attention from identifying and delivering projects that would have better met present and future student and classroom needs”.
Other submissions to the inquiry also raise concerns about increased overcrowding in schools, including one case where a local parents and citizens association claimed students at one western Sydney have been forced to take classes in hallways.
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