Rainbow Moonlight wrote:Be good if all schools were securely fenced- good for the students protection from dangerous members of the wider community. A lot better use of the money than a school hall.
I agree with this RM,a school does need decent fencing to keep undesirables out regardlesss of the area you live in and I have found myself worried about just this issue here where I live.
Not only does it keep undesirables out but small children/kids in. A fence is a boundary line obviously, but it was assumed by teachers that kids just ought to "know" about the invisible "fence" line, the teachers and I had differing veiws about this awareness on the behalf of small kids with very short attention spans ,so they put the onus upon a small child to be responsible for they're own safety.
I have had meetings with the Principal when it was discovered on more than one occasion that kids were missing from the junior primary areas , 2 kids 5 and 6 years old, and found walking along a beach 1/2 a kilometre away.
They were
not seen leaving school grounds and teachers on yard duty completely missed the fact they had left the school .
The perimeter of the school had hopelessly inadequate fencing. I'm sure I would have preferred a new safe enclosure to the school rather than a new school hall at that stage.
Priorities are different depending on towns/areas and amount of funding dollars available to them and prioritising those dollars can be very difficult..
We dont have a choice regarding which school we deem appropriate to ensure the safety of our child, nor one in which we believe is adequately equipped to properly provide a broad, well rounded education.We are stuck with one large Area School.
These kids could have drowned or been abducted regardless of any claims/assumptions about the desirability of the area in which I live, and I hate to think it could have been my own son or daughter, at that time.