Can’t say I’ve heard anything about this, but the thought of “super schools” is somewhat frightening on the basis that the pupils would then be know as “super students”.

I think this is an oxymoron given our schools current literacy levels.

It’s some ’super school’ with a 1500 kid capacity. Parents aren’t happy coz the government’s pretty keen on the idea and they havent been consulted. Ginni will have to be demolished, and preschools and primary schools around in Holt and Higgins would have to close.
And yet Dunlop doesn’t even have a primary school yet…a student was crying on air on 2CC about it

Ginninderra High held 1200+ students during its prime (late 80’s).
I think it’s a bit sad, seeing as though I spent 4 good years there, but the place has gone to shit since then…
David Southern was an excellent principal, but once he left, the downhill slide began….

I heard something about it this morning. I have to agree, Ginninderra is a dump and doesn’t have a very savoury reputation.

However, the thought of a mega school is a bit frightening.

I think we should dub it “ULTRA-SCHOOL”

That sounds far more scarier. Imagine turning up for hte year nine debating championships to face off against “TEAM ULTRA-SCHOOL”.

has anyone noticed that PRIOR to majority governemnent the stanhope crew were obsessed with consultation and setup myriad community consulting groups.

with majority govt, they dont consult at all – rule by fiat instead.

“Mega” is so 1990s. If we’re planning for the future, it should be at least a “Giga” or even “Tera” school. Yeah…Tera-School has a nice ring to it.

I have to say, my limited experience with Ginninderra High suggests that, if nothing else, the demolition won’t be a great loss to the architectural community.

Well I guess ruling by a fiat is better than a saab

The saabs did orright in India.

Bonfire,

Yep…

I don’t much fancy the thought of five year olds or even pre-schoolers sharing the playground with sixteen-year-olds.

Lets just hope no-one gets any hairbrained ideas to blow the place up ala pumpkin head and the hospital fiasco in the 90’s

Ginnin-tera?

Giginterra… the computer capital of the WORLD..

Tera-School has some charm but to be truly, nauseatingly fresh it obviously needs to be the ‘Uber-School’. I hate how often I’ve seen’Uber’lately.

UberGin sounds a bit veg to me though :-S

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Without be cynical I’d hazard a guess that the long term olan here is to build the mega school, bulldoze the suburban schools, thus freeing up the land for residential properties and thus fulfilling the Comrades dream of an ACT with a population of about half a million.

And he knows he can do it because he has no opposition and its doubtful that he’ll have any next election.

All the while putting the quality of the education at risk. Does bigger schoole means larger classes? In my experience yes it does, but I’m guessing the teachers are the only ones who would know for sure….

Any teachers out there?

Tis more than a rumour…this story in the CT this morning about it:
http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=local&story_id=410095&category=General+News&m=7&y=2005

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More to the point is that students tend to get overwhealmed and lost in great big schools, especially primary schoolers.

As well, no longer will kids be able to walk to school because it will be too far and be too dangerous due to crossing major roads. In addition, seperate schools used to be known for certain things in the curriculum such as sports, music, drama, whatever.

Now the choice will be do it all at one school.

I can only see this contributing to the already woeful levels of literacy in children.

Is it my imagination but does it appear that the Comrade is determined that we all end up little clones run by a centralised, quite out of touch, and exceedingly arrogant government?

Consultation no longer appears to mean much since the last election, unless it controversial and the government doesn’t like what the community is saying. Then, of course, they have consultation until they find the right people to tell them what they want to hear.

And the teachers who will be against this idea won’t dare break away from their unionist labor voting mindsets, no matter what.

Gold Creek already K-10… Slightly seperate campus’ but I think they’d probably try to keep them seperate to some degree in the new G as well.

Apparantly it works *shrug*

I never taught at Gold Creek, only Melba High and Lanyon High, both quite smal schools but hard enough anyway.

My knowledge of Gold Creek is only what I’ve heard and that is that it doesn’t work quite as well as it was expected. But that is from a harassed teachers point of view.

The major problem is that you shouldn’t be mixing the little ones with the big ones. A part of a child’s growing experience is where he or she fits into the world. While at primary school they go up the grades and get more responsibility and more prestige until they reach grade 6. At this point they are on top of the world.

They then move onto high school where they again become the lowest, but having already been through the process they understand how it works and that as the years go by they wil no longer be at the bottom.

Its all part of their maturation and learning to be a part of society.