Questions over education - Geelong News,
7th July 2009
(Wed 1 Jul 2009)
The Brumby Government has been closing Victorian schools for more than four years, showing that Labor has failed to deliver on education for Victorians.
In the Barwon South West region, Western Heights Secondary College will see the three campus Minerva, Quamby and Barton Campus -- merged onto the one site.
The Minister for Education calls this a regeneration project and uses terms such as mergers and reorganise yet behind the spin, the reality is that the Brumby Government is closing Victorian schools by stealth.
The Minister is overseeing the school closures and mergers in the Barwon South West region and many more schools in the State are facing the same fate, but the Minister cannot or will not tell Victorians how many or which schools will be affected.
Since the Brumby Government began boasting that education was its number one priority, we have seen teacher pay disputes, gagging of principals, multi-million dollar maintenance backlogs and bullying of school communities and now school closures.
The Minister seems unwilling to tell Victorian families which schools are on the hit list for merging or when those schools will be affected by Labors so called regeneration process.
Barwon South West families deserve a government that is willing to listen to community's concerns, and one that will not compromise our children's education.
Martin Dixon, Shadow Minister for Education
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