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High School for Coburg

Report Card to Minister of Education


Bronwyn Pike - February 2010

Issue Pass / Fail Comments


Local open entry secondary Fail Not one within 3.5km of corner of Bell Street
school and Sydney Road
Secondary school closures in Fail Fifteen closures / mergers in eighteen years
area
Secondary school openings Fail One select entry senior high school
in area
Where do kids go from Fail They have to leave their friends and local
twenty two primary schools? community and travel to distant schools
Distance travelled to Fail Too far. No opportunities to walk or ride bikes,
secondary school greenhouse gas emissions too high.
Transition to secondary Fail Students split from friends and local community
school and peer groups
Community building / social Fail Community is being dismantled
capital
Meeting changing Fail New demographics are young families with
demographic needs children
Health benefits Fail No opportunities to walk or ride bikes
Job creation / economic Fail No jobs for teachers and/or service industries,
benefits no economic benefits to local business

Adequate education Fail Simply not adequate for community needs


provision

Taskforce to examine issue TBC Committed to at June ALP State Conference


and in Parliament Nov 2009 but still waiting

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