Diddly-Squat at Flynn, Stanhope says

Either way, the condition they have let it get into is reprehensible. Stanhope just comes up with a side track story to change the focus away from what he should have dealt with properly months ago or shouldn’t have done 2/3 years ago.

Apparently the photos were taken of interiors in the demountable classrooms. These were added to the Flynn school when the local population was more lusty than usual (long way from pubs and cinemas)and the resultant increase in ankle biters needed a place to learn responsible behaviour. Unfortunately, when they were no longer requirer (the local populace having taken up bowls and crocheting)they were never removed.

I am all for homeless people getting accommodation, but in Flynn they are a long way from doing anything enjoyable and resort to local vandalism, the final attack on all those smug locals in their snug houses.

Frankly, reopening Flynn as a primary school is currently not an option. But reopening it for community activities is. Once Flynn school had a baby clinic and a dental surgery (in the east wing) It has excellent facilities for community groups: U3A, Religious (Mosque?) needs, after school care, there is a good school hall for drama, music, film groups: and why not a shelter for the homeless?

None of this precludes the reuse of these fine buildings as a school in the future when the need arises as it surely will.

But if the developers are allowed to demolish, and use the playing fields we will end up with ticcy taccy boxes ill suited to the neighbourhood and eventually, children deprived of a school.

I was a student of both the Ainslie schools which have become heritage buildings both for Canberra and for me personally. The flynn school is in the same category.

Check out the ‘Today’ column for Coe’s response. Very funny.

These two could be the comic relief we will need when Hargreaves goes.

I have always wondered the feasibility of getting a hold of a disused school and using it as a glow in the dark paint ball facility.

Bogus story or not, there is a housing shortage, and the weather is freezing. If there really were people living there, would you seriously begrudge them a bit of shelter and still claim to be human?

Bloody hell – there’s no disputing the recent poor condition of the school. Neighbours are livid.