‘Unsafe, neglected, rundown’: NSW students wait for $1 billion in upgrades and new schools | lucy_carroll
NSW public schools promised hundreds of millions of dollars in last year’s budget are still waiting for much-needed upgrades, amid concerns from parents the classrooms are substandard and putting the health and safety of students at risk.
“We are yet to see virtually any of the promised funds go into upgrades...they’ll have to go in with a bulldozer if the schools are left to languish any longer.”In a submission to the school infrastructure parliamentary inquiry, the P&C said Randwick Girls High’s 900 students and 63 teaching staff are going to school in “poor conditions that pose considerable health and safety risks to students and staff”.
But a spokesperson for the Department of Education said COVID-19, prolonged wet weather and flooding had disrupted school projects. “There is no nearby high school. The only way to get to the local high school, Riverstone High, would take an hour and twenty minutes to walk to, is by bus or car,” said Clarke.
While planning is under way to upgrade the school to include 56 new learning spaces, Corbo said the school’s play spaces have been “drastically reduced.”
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