Hurstville Public School人满为患（8月28日更新SMH报道）

patrickzhu

8月25日，社区报Leader的报道的原文：

http://www.theleader.com.au/news ... 1.aspx?storypage=1#

Hurstville Public School parents oppose merger
BY EVA TEJSZERSKI
25 Aug, 2010 04:00 AM

THE plan to shift senior primary school pupils to a nearby high school campus continues to draw strong opposition from parents.

The Parents & Citizens association (P&C) at Hurstville Public School revealed after its meeting this month that 89.5percent of parents who had children at the primary school rejected the scheme.

Many said they had considered sending their children to an alternative school.

The Department of Education and Training will spend $14 million on the refurbishment of rundown buildings at Hurstville Boys Campus Georges River College in the hope it will boost the school's dwindling enrolments and ease crowding at the primary school.

The refurbishment will add 15 more classrooms, including three studios.

Hurstville Public School received $3.2 million to refurbish 25 classrooms under recent federal government funding. It was the first time since 1979 the school had received new buildings.

Kogarah MP Cherie Burton, who lobbied for infrastructure projects at both schools for the past 10 years, said the scheme was a positive step.

"It's very hard to get capital works approved because the government only has a limited amount of funding for it,'' Ms Burton said. ``This is good money for state-of-the-art facilities.''

She campaigned for two separate projects to upgrade the schools, but was returned with an offer to refurbish only the boys campus because of insufficient space at the primary school.

Ms Burton said there had been a large drop in students numbers at the high school, which caters for years 7 to 10. It was hoped the refurbishment would attract more enrolments.

An annual report showed enrolments dropped from 377 in 2008, to 349 last year. In comparison, there are more than 1000 students at the primary school one of the largest in NSW.

Fewer than 20 out of 180 students who graduated from the primary school enrolled at the high school.

"It doesn't make sense to waste taxpayers' money on additional buildings when there are empty ones available,'' Ms Burton said. ``Maybe down the track we can get more funding but we've got to manage our resources to the best of our ability.''

The principal of Hurstville Boys Campus, Neil Worsley, said the high school had a "long and close association'' with the primary school. "We have regular science and technology lessons for primary students [and] our students have worked as support readers, sports coaches and in peer support roles at the primary school,'' Mr Worsley said.

He said the public school's students participated in an annual "multicultural day'' on campus grounds and more than 200 primary school students attended the selective schools test every year.

Mr Worsley said the school would not tolerate disobedient behaviour.

"All schools deal [with it] from time to time and we rigorously follow guidelines to manage any incident swiftly,'' he said.

Kindergarten to year 12 students already interact on the same site at Lucas Heights Community School, while students share some existing facilities at Kingsgrove Public School and Kingsgrove High School.

But both of those high schools are co-educational, unlike Hurstville Boys Campus.

P&C Building sub-committee chairperson Jason Yeo said the association would continue to fight the plan.

The department announced the project was ready to go to tender at a presentation in July, but the school's P&C requested a delay until parent's concerns were heard.

"I understand it's important to grab the money that's on offer, but it has to be a suitable project,'' Mr Yeo said.

"If you look at the school's layout, there are other options better ones than sending 10-year-old girls to mix with 15-year-old boys.''

He said a permanent merger of the primary and high schools was not the same as occasional interaction during special events.

his-tory

搬迁是迟早的事情，现在hurstville ps既有大量增加的当地华人的小孩，同时也有利用他人地址的周边的小孩，这种压力在现有校舍的状况是维持不了多久的，同时学校的资源，师资力量的分配都无法满足学生数量增长速度带来的压力，这是现实，即便家长反对，学校面临的压力难以得到缓解，这个趋势就不可改变。这个leader报内容我昨天也看了，这篇文章也表明现在不是p&c和家长能不能抵挡住这个计划的问题，而是学校现有条件能不能抵挡住学生数量激增，带来的教学效果下降的问题。

his-tory

下一步面临同样问题的有carlingford，chatswood，eastwood，artarmon等小学

买房子啊

现在喝食肥都是讲广东话吗？

patrickzhu

这个事件终于迎来了悉尼主流媒体大报的报道，今天SMH的报道

Nine-year-olds don't belong in high school, say parents
Anna Patty EDUCATION EDITOR
August 28, 2010 - 3:00AM

ANGRY parents have protested outside a Hurstville primary school opposing plans to ''cut the school in half'' by transferring students from years 5 and 6 to a boys' high school.

The P&C spokesman, Jason Yeo, said about 50 parents gathered outside Hurstville Public School yesterday to protest against the plan, under which girls as young as nine would be on the same site as teenage boys.

The MP for Kogarah, Cherie Burton, wrote to parents of children at the school, defending the state government's decision to transfer years 5 and 6 from Hurstville primary to Hurstville Boys' High as part of a $14 million plan to refurbish both schools. The move is also believed to be designed to help bolster declining enrolments at the high school campus for boys in years 7 to 10.

Mr Yeo said parents would not attend a town hall meeting Ms Burton had called for September 8 unless the government was open to ideas other than the one it had on the drawing board.

''Parents don't want our school split in half,'' Mr Yeo said.

''The P&C has received professional advice indicating that the cost for a 10-classroom building on the primary school site would be about $5 million.''

Parents dispute government claims that there is not enough room on the existing site to accommodate enrolment growth.

''We have had some architectural advice which suggests there is room,'' said Mr Yeo, whose daughter attends the school.

He said of 516 people in the school community surveyed, more than 89 per cent had rejected the moving plan.

''I am concerned about the safety, security and academic environment that we are moving into,'' Mr Yeo said. ''We are going to have nine-year-old girls at a boys' high school where there are 15- and 16-year-old boys.''

He said the reputation of the school's opportunity classes for gifted and talented students in years 5 and 6 would be put at risk.

The Herald has reported data from the Department of Education and Training that showed Hurstville Public was the most popular first choice of parents seeking entry into opportunity classes in NSW. Last year, there were 610 applications for one of 60 places in the classes.

In her letter to parents, Ms Burton said there was not enough room at Hurstville Public to accommodate current and future enrolments and high school classrooms would otherwise be left empty.

She said the high school boys and primary pupils would use different entries and exits to the site. ''After my initial reservations, I have seen the plans and I believe that this is a very exciting project,'' she said.

A spokesman for the Education Minister, Verity Firth, said that from 2013, pupils from years 5 and 6 will access the redeveloped high school site, which ''will have its own entrance identifying it as part of Hurstville Public School and barriers will provide separation from the college campus''.

''All classrooms, toilets and outdoor play areas in the upgraded area will be used only by primary school students, with Hurstville Public School teachers providing supervision,'' the spokesman said.

''Timetable changes for the college campus students will be made to avoid occasions where they may be in the vicinity of primary school students.''

The Greens MP John Kaye said the architectural plans suggested high school boys would have access to the primary school.

This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/national/e ... 20100827-13vzg.html

patrickzhu

看出来了，家长们要求其实也很简单，就是在Hurstville公立小学的原址上新建教室大楼，家长们有地方造，而政府教育部认为没地方了，一个10间教室的大楼大概要500万刀，家长们不需要1400万刀的投资给两所学校共同发展。

Hurstville Public School的名声在外，州教育部的数据显示，去年是NSW最受家长欢迎的带OC班的公立小学，去年有610个OC申请是把这个小学列为第一志愿（招60人）。

[ 本帖最后由 patrickzhu 于 2010-8-28 15:59 编辑 ]

patrickzhu

原帖由 his-tory 于 2010-8-28 11:10 发表
下一步面临同样问题的有carlingford，chatswood，eastwood，artarmon等小学

其他不敢说，Chatswood和Artarmon的小学应该在十年之内没有这样的问题。

his-tory

原帖由 patrickzhu 于 2010-8-28 15:58 发表

其他不敢说，Chatswood和Artarmon的小学应该在十年之内没有这样的问题。

不说10年前，5年前hurstville也没现在这么紧张，跨区也可以去。放到现在，10年，这些华人聚居区会变什么样子，真不好说。

SMART1968

原帖由 南飞雁 于 2010-8-26 21:38 发表

Smart1968，你换头像了。:si21

每次接孩子的时候，从Kenwyn Street进去，前一个门是出Primary School的孩子，在路尽头，是High School，在小学的家长对于这些High School的孩子，都带个心眼，因为他们有时还会有Drug Deal，很可怕！:s ...

头像换了还是鸟，你说的方向我每天经过，是很可怕，我有看见吸烟，有的躲在KFC后面小路里吸Drug。

SMART1968

请问有谁知道明天31号几点开家长会？

[ 本帖最后由 SMART1968 于 2010-8-30 14:32 编辑 ]

H妈妈

原帖由 patrickzhu 于 2010-8-25 17:49 发表
九成家长抵制好市围公小搬迁计划

http://www.xkb.com.au/html/news/zuirehuati/2010/0824/41212.html

2010-08-24| 16:23| 来源：澳洲新快网| 编辑：轩渺 记者：马小龙

304360

强制实施或引发集体“出走” 过去一周来， ...

这张照片看上去都是亚洲人呢

SMART1968

原帖由 H妈妈 于 2010-8-30 22:17 发表


这张照片看上去都是亚洲人呢

其实现在好市围，很象以前上海朝阳新村，现在叫朝阳小区。保持着很多传统的海派文化

[ 本帖最后由 SMART1968 于 2010-8-30 22:39 编辑 ]

amu

Eastwood 小学11月份就有一栋新的教学楼投入使用，估计未来5年是够用的

SMART1968

原帖由 买房子啊 于 2010-8-28 12:54 发表
现在喝食肥都是讲广东话吗？

很象现在上海，聚集了各地来的精英，但还保存一些海派文化。

SMART1968

原帖由 patrickzhu 于 2010-8-6 12:49 发表
299168
Concerned: Part of the school community is worried about the move.

新南威尔士州最大的房地产开发商之一Multiplex Group最近向有着1100名学生的Hurstville Public School捐助了20万刀，分四次（5万刀）支付。 ...

那公寓造完后将变成公屋由政府租下。

patrickzhu

原帖由 SMART1968 于 2010-9-1 20:07 发表

那公寓造完后将变成公屋由政府租下。

原来是这样啊。

小洋葱

原帖由 SMART1968 于 2010-9-1 20:07 发表

那公寓造完后将变成公屋由政府租下。

啊～～这这这～～刚开始觉得还挺好，学校有资金就可以扩建，不用搬迁了。没想到变公屋，这不是hurstville人更多了。现在交通已经够挤了，还要雪上加霜？

Aquarius

公屋是建在哪里？小学对面？

SMART1968

原帖由 Aquarius 于 2010-9-8 09:38 发表
公屋是建在哪里？小学对面？

由于小学改建计划改变，暂不会建公屋，因为公共设施的问题。

SMART1968

胜利是南区人民的！