❓ Mrs Roberts questions the Minister for Education about the lack of a School of the Air classroom in Coral Bay, highlighting the long bus trips kindergarten children endure. The Minister acknowledges the issue and states that action is being taken to provide appropriate facilities.
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CORAL BAY — SCHOOL OF THE AIR CLASSROOM
Mr Speaker, in asking this question I would like to acknowledge the principal, staff and students from Riverside Education Support Centre in Mandurah, who are in your gallery today. The Coral Bay community has been crying out for a School of the Air classroom for quite some time now. (1) Is the minister aware that kindergarten children are having to go on a two-hour bus trip to the primary school section of Exmouth District High School, leaving at 6.30 am each day? (2) Has the minister taken, or will she take, this issue to cabinet or will she just continue to monitor the situation and get her department to deal with it? (3) When does the minister think that the Coral Bay community could expect to see a classroom delivered? Dr E. CONSTABLE
Mr Speaker, in asking this question I would like to acknowledge the principal, staff and students from Riverside Education Support Centre in Mandurah, who are in your gallery today. The Coral Bay community has been crying out for a School of the Air classroom for quite some time now. (1) Is the minister aware that kindergarten children are having to go on a two-hour bus trip to the primary school section of Exmouth District High School, leaving at 6.30 am each day? (2) Has the minister taken, or will she take, this issue to cabinet or will she just continue to monitor the situation and get her department to deal with it? (3) When does the minister think that the Coral Bay community could expect to see a classroom delivered? Dr E. CONSTABLE
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(1)–(3) The member for Midland asked a very important question and one about school requirements that I have been discussing with the department now for some weeks. I have asked the director general. I am aware of a very unsatisfactory situation of the children having to travel for so long on a bus. I was informed originally by the department that because Coral Bay is not a gazetted town there would not be a school. That has not turned out to be correct. I have followed up on that and I have asked for urgent action to be taken to provide appropriate facilities at Coral Bay for children at Coral Bay.
The Coral Bay community has been crying out for a School of the Air classroom for quite some time now. (1) Is the minister aware that kindergarten children are having to go on a two-hour bus trip to the primary school section of Exmouth District High School, leaving at 6.30 am each day? (2) Has the minister taken, or will she take, this issue to cabinet or will she just continue to monitor the situation and get her department to deal with it? (3) When does the minister think that the Coral Bay community could expect to see a classroom delivered? Dr E. CONSTABLE replied: (1)–(3) The member for Midland asked a very important question and one about school requirements that I have been discussing with the department now for some weeks. I have asked the director general. I am aware of a very unsatisfactory situation of the children having to travel for so long on a bus. I was informed originally by the department that because Coral Bay is not a gazetted town there would not be a school. That has not turned out to be correct. I have followed up on that and I have asked for urgent action to be taken to provide appropriate facilities at Coral Bay for children at Coral Bay.
(1) Is the minister aware that kindergarten children are having to go on a two-hour bus trip to the primary school section of Exmouth District High School, leaving at 6.30 am each day? (2) Has the minister taken, or will she take, this issue to cabinet or will she just continue to monitor the situation and get her department to deal with it? (3) When does the minister think that the Coral Bay community could expect to see a classroom delivered? Dr E. CONSTABLE replied: (1)–(3) The member for Midland asked a very important question and one about school requirements that I have been discussing with the department now for some weeks. I have asked the director general. I am aware of a very unsatisfactory situation of the children having to travel for so long on a bus. I was informed originally by the department that because Coral Bay is not a gazetted town there would not be a school. That has not turned out to be correct. I have followed up on that and I have asked for urgent action to be taken to provide appropriate facilities at Coral Bay for children at Coral Bay.
(2) Has the minister taken, or will she take, this issue to cabinet or will she just continue to monitor the situation and get her department to deal with it? (3) When does the minister think that the Coral Bay community could expect to see a classroom delivered? Dr E. CONSTABLE replied: (1)–(3) The member for Midland asked a very important question and one about school requirements that I have been discussing with the department now for some weeks. I have asked the director general. I am aware of a very unsatisfactory situation of the children having to travel for so long on a bus. I was informed originally by the department that because Coral Bay is not a gazetted town there would not be a school. That has not turned out to be correct. I have followed up on that and I have asked for urgent action to be taken to provide appropriate facilities at Coral Bay for children at Coral Bay.
(3) When does the minister think that the Coral Bay community could expect to see a classroom delivered? Dr E. CONSTABLE replied: (1)–(3) The member for Midland asked a very important question and one about school requirements that I have been discussing with the department now for some weeks. I have asked the director general. I am aware of a very unsatisfactory situation of the children having to travel for so long on a bus. I was informed originally by the department that because Coral Bay is not a gazetted town there would not be a school. That has not turned out to be correct. I have followed up on that and I have asked for urgent action to be taken to provide appropriate facilities at Coral Bay for children at Coral Bay.
Dr E. CONSTABLE replied: (1)–(3) The member for Midland asked a very important question and one about school requirements that I have been discussing with the department now for some weeks. I have asked the director general. I am aware of a very unsatisfactory situation of the children having to travel for so long on a bus. I was informed originally by the department that because Coral Bay is not a gazetted town there would not be a school. That has not turned out to be correct. I have followed up on that and I have asked for urgent action to be taken to provide appropriate facilities at Coral Bay for children at Coral Bay.
(1)–(3) The member for Midland asked a very important question and one about school requirements that I have been discussing with the department now for some weeks. I have asked the director general. I am aware of a very unsatisfactory situation of the children having to travel for so long on a bus. I was informed originally by the department that because Coral Bay is not a gazetted town there would not be a school. That has not turned out to be correct. I have followed up on that and I have asked for urgent action to be taken to provide appropriate facilities at Coral Bay for children at Coral Bay.
The Coral Bay community has been crying out for a School of the Air classroom for quite some time now. (1) Is the minister aware that kindergarten children are having to go on a two-hour bus trip to the primary school section of Exmouth District High School, leaving at 6.30 am each day? (2) Has the minister taken, or will she take, this issue to cabinet or will she just continue to monitor the situation and get her department to deal with it? (3) When does the minister think that the Coral Bay community could expect to see a classroom delivered? Dr E. CONSTABLE replied: (1)–(3) The member for Midland asked a very important question and one about school requirements that I have been discussing with the department now for some weeks. I have asked the director general. I am aware of a very unsatisfactory situation of the children having to travel for so long on a bus. I was informed originally by the department that because Coral Bay is not a gazetted town there would not be a school. That has not turned out to be correct. I have followed up on that and I have asked for urgent action to be taken to provide appropriate facilities at Coral Bay for children at Coral Bay.
(1) Is the minister aware that kindergarten children are having to go on a two-hour bus trip to the primary school section of Exmouth District High School, leaving at 6.30 am each day? (2) Has the minister taken, or will she take, this issue to cabinet or will she just continue to monitor the situation and get her department to deal with it? (3) When does the minister think that the Coral Bay community could expect to see a classroom delivered? Dr E. CONSTABLE replied: (1)–(3) The member for Midland asked a very important question and one about school requirements that I have been discussing with the department now for some weeks. I have asked the director general. I am aware of a very unsatisfactory situation of the children having to travel for so long on a bus. I was informed originally by the department that because Coral Bay is not a gazetted town there would not be a school. That has not turned out to be correct. I have followed up on that and I have asked for urgent action to be taken to provide appropriate facilities at Coral Bay for children at Coral Bay.
(2) Has the minister taken, or will she take, this issue to cabinet or will she just continue to monitor the situation and get her department to deal with it? (3) When does the minister think that the Coral Bay community could expect to see a classroom delivered? Dr E. CONSTABLE replied: (1)–(3) The member for Midland asked a very important question and one about school requirements that I have been discussing with the department now for some weeks. I have asked the director general. I am aware of a very unsatisfactory situation of the children having to travel for so long on a bus. I was informed originally by the department that because Coral Bay is not a gazetted town there would not be a school. That has not turned out to be correct. I have followed up on that and I have asked for urgent action to be taken to provide appropriate facilities at Coral Bay for children at Coral Bay.
(3) When does the minister think that the Coral Bay community could expect to see a classroom delivered? Dr E. CONSTABLE replied: (1)–(3) The member for Midland asked a very important question and one about school requirements that I have been discussing with the department now for some weeks. I have asked the director general. I am aware of a very unsatisfactory situation of the children having to travel for so long on a bus. I was informed originally by the department that because Coral Bay is not a gazetted town there would not be a school. That has not turned out to be correct. I have followed up on that and I have asked for urgent action to be taken to provide appropriate facilities at Coral Bay for children at Coral Bay.
Dr E. CONSTABLE replied: (1)–(3) The member for Midland asked a very important question and one about school requirements that I have been discussing with the department now for some weeks. I have asked the director general. I am aware of a very unsatisfactory situation of the children having to travel for so long on a bus. I was informed originally by the department that because Coral Bay is not a gazetted town there would not be a school. That has not turned out to be correct. I have followed up on that and I have asked for urgent action to be taken to provide appropriate facilities at Coral Bay for children at Coral Bay.
(1)–(3) The member for Midland asked a very important question and one about school requirements that I have been discussing with the department now for some weeks. I have asked the director general. I am aware of a very unsatisfactory situation of the children having to travel for so long on a bus. I was informed originally by the department that because Coral Bay is not a gazetted town there would not be a school. That has not turned out to be correct. I have followed up on that and I have asked for urgent action to be taken to provide appropriate facilities at Coral Bay for children at Coral Bay.
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