Where's my school?

I must be just lucky then.

– actually i sent in two submissions – maybe I got points for keeness. I sent one for Dickson College out of support for the college system.

Seepi I too sent in a (private) submission, but I have received no report . . .

emd, I don’t know why. The arbitration (which is holding up places) decision hasn’t been made known. So until it does, teachers won’t.

It’s on the AEU website – and it should be on DET or another option on the phone so as to not clog the system.

Swaggie, the Govt may have promised but the schools weren’t told as “quickly”.

Bonython isn’t a bad place and the kids in afters aren’t ferals btw.

sorry emd i didn’t keep mine. it was a roughly 30page booklet. i assume anyone who wrote a submission got one.

Seepi, where can I see the report?

I gave up the day after the notice of closure when the department promised to run the open days – we trooped along to Bonython at the appointed time thinking we’d look around only to find it locked and closed with just a few ferals running round presumably in ‘after school care’ which more closely resembled ‘after school run around and do what you like’. The whole exercise has been a shambles but increasingly you expect nothing less from the Department and ultimately the gutless wonder who runs this Government.

They need to close the schools, cut back on bus services, keep policing to a minimum, etc., so that Summernats can get more government funding

They’ve certainly lost me. Six months of u-n-b-e-l-i-e-v-a-b-l-e stress while we tried to keep our school from being closed, plus family members in the teaching profession who still don’t know where the hell they will be teaching this year or the hours they are to work (cos Barr wouldn’t parley). Add the closing or stripped essential services such as bus fiasco, Civic shopfront and Griffith library (and other libraries to be understaffed and ‘satelited’). Any more public facilities and personnel they can club to death?

emd…. did you just say ‘accountable and transparent decision making’??? HAH, Stanhope has a majority government, which basically means he can screw with whomever he wants and he can get away with it! I hope you all remember these issues at the next election!

emd I got sent a report on the closures. It mostly summarised the submissions they received.

I know, it totally sucks. Who’s going to send their child to a P-2 or P-3 only to switch to a P-6 to complete their primary schooling? Why not just use a P-6 from the start?

It also sucks that the ACT Govt didn’t have to give any reasons for why they made their final decision. Just gave us a list of who’s closing, who’s amalgamating, and who’s staying open. So much for accountable and transparent decision making.

Can I please ask what is going on with Lyons Primary? I know that is isn’t closing, but is being made into an ‘early childhood centre’, my question is qhy are they destroying the only Italian Bilingual school in the ACT??? I wanted to send my son there specifically to learn Italian, and I was impressed that a public School offered this to the ‘general public’, with two years to go, my husband and I are now going to work our butts off so I can send him to a private school so he has the opportunity to do extra curricular things…

I don’t understand how the residents of the ACT can continue to vote for this stupid excuse for a Government!

Yip-yay! I got a call back from a real human being at DET, who said they’re hoping it will be on the website later today. It’s all ready to publish, just awaiting final approval.

It was DET that said they’re getting all the calls from teachers. Just passing on what info I’ve been given so far.

emd it’s not blocked up because of the teachers. Staffing aren’t back until next Monday.

It must be all the parents who need to enrol their children now their local school has been closed.