21 July 2005

Big G go Boom?

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I heard a rumour this morning that the ACT Government is closing down Ginninderra (District) High School, demolishing it, and building a new ‘super-school’.

According to my source, the layout of the school is the cause behind the pupils behavioural problems (what the? I behaved fine!)

The new school would cater for kids from Pre-School to Yr. 10. This would then see Macgregor, Holt, Higgins and Latham Public schools all closing.

I have no idea where this info comes from, but has anyone heard about this?

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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*

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?

I owns joo

Absent Diane4:13 pm 21 Jul 05

u pwnd

G1^^1^d4rra H1gh (L33T)

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

Absent Diane1:15 pm 21 Jul 05

Giginterra… the computer capital of the WORLD..

Ginnin-tera?

Absent Diane1:02 pm 21 Jul 05

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

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

The saabs did orright in India.

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

“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.

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.

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”.

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….

redneck_ninja9:19 am 21 Jul 05

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

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.

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