Another school oval under threat! Not just Doubleview Primary School, now local residents and parents of Inglewood Primary school are trying to stop development in their oval, are trying to stop developments in their school ovals.
With small to no backyards these days and increasing population density, you would think children and their communities would need more, not less green space?
But while our children’s literacy and numeracy standards fall, it seems all our Ministers of Education care about is handing out construction contracts?
See recent articles and letters in the Stirling Times on the 1st of November;
“Education ministers need to exchange their hard hats for a thinking caps and start focusing their attention on improving education standards and what children really need.”
It seems that like every other Government Department, the Department of Education is being controlled by the Development & Construction Complex? See Sell’em off and Pack’em in.
It has nothing to do with shortsightedness, they know exactly what they are doing. Our senior politicians are nothing more than exploitation facilitators to the construction and development industries, recycling, rebuilding and selling off publicly owned Education Department land.
Above – A feisty public forum held at the Scarborough Community Centre on Saturday 19 November, 2019, to explain what the Department of Education had already decided to do, without public consultation. The Minister for Education is attempting to answering questions.
Only people who had written to the Minister were invited to RSVP for this forum. Other parents and people living opposite the school were not invited.
A St Georges Terrace executive suggested the new International School should go in the city, which is what many planners and people have be crying out for. Anyone can go to the International School private school you don’t have to be a 457 Visa holder. The State Government has failed to get Perth people to adopt an inner-city life style and the fact that their is no school is one reason sited by many. A city school would also make sense in terms of public transport.
Though some were happy that the Doubleview Primary School will get an upgrade (total rebuild), most were not happy about the loss of green space and trees and the crowding and inevitable traffic.
Doubleview Primary School oval
By Leisha Jack
