coburg parents and children walk to no school - wed 19 oct

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Coburg Walks To No School Wed19 Oct

On 19October 2010,the Department of Education and Early ChildhoodDevelopment (DEECD) handed down its report into secondary school provision inthe Coburg area.

The report showed a lack of places at existing secondary schools for Coburg areastudents which would only get worse in the foreseeable future.

One year later nothing has changed.

In January this year the DEECD wrote to High School for Coburg (HSC) on behalf ofMinister Dixon outlining the work that would be done this year to look at provisionoptions it is now October and none of this work has been done.

To make matters worse, the DEECD is beginning yet another review. Actionneeds to be taken to look at where our children can have secondary provision notanother round of number crunching.

The analysis to show a school is needed has already been done at great expenseand Minister Dixon has already acknowledged the need in Parliament.

High School for Coburg is calling for the extensive under-utilised capacity at theCoburg Senior High site to be used to address the lack of places for localchildren, said Cate Hall, co-founder of the High School for Coburg communitygroup.

Two thirds of the 437 respondents to HSCs May 2011 survey also favour thisprovision option.

To mark Walk to School Day on19 October, residents in Coburg are holding their

own event Walk To No School Day - to highlight the lack of secondary schooloptions and thelack of DEECD action.

Starting at 4.15pm in Bridges Reserve, Coburg, parents and children will walkfrom the old Coburg High School site (now an empty lot) to the Coburg SeniorHigh School (the site of the last open entry state secondary school in Coburg).

HSC have recently released a report on growth in numbers at local primaryschools showing a 48% increase in Prep numbers in just the last four years.

While the need for secondary school provision continues to increase in the area,the options for students are decreasing with school mergers and open entryschools becoming senior schools and other schools simply becoming full.


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Concurrent with the increase in primary school enrolments and a baby boom hasbeen a decrease in the number of secondary school options and access, saidHall.

For more information please visit www.highschoolcoburg.org.

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To interview Cate Hall co-founder of HSC, additional population statistics, photoopportunities or more information, please contact:

Darren Saffin0411 089 [email protected]

Map showing the state and Catholic primaryschools in and around Coburg

Map showing no open entrysecondary schools in the same area.The two schools shown are Coburg

Senior High School (years 10 to 12)and Preston Girls High School

Secondary schools closed down / merged in the Coburg area over the past 18years:

Moreland City College - closed 31 December 2004 - now Coburg Senior HighSchool years 10 to 12 only

Coburg High School closed 31 December 1993 - buildings demolished andsite awaiting permit approval for development

Newlands High School - closed 19 December 1992 - buildings demolished, sitenow part of Pentridge Prison development

Coburg Technical School - now Coburg Special Development School Coburg North Secondary College closed on 19 December 1992

Hadfield Secondary College closed on 31 December 1992 - buildingsdemolished, site now a retirement village

Moreland High School closed on 31 December 1991 - now Kangan BatmanTAFE

Oak Park Secondary School closed 31 December 1992

Moomba Park Secondary College, Glenroy High School, Glenroy TechnicalSchool, Hadfield Secondary College and Oak Park Secondary College mergedon 1 January 1993 to form Box Forest Secondary College

Brunswick High School, Brunswick Technical School and Brunswick East High

School merged on 1 January 1993 to form Brunswick Secondary College St Josephs College closed 31 Dec 2009
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Northland Secondary College becoming a senior school only accepting years9 and up from 2011 and years 10 and up from 2012

Lakeside Secondary College and Merrilands College merging in 2012

coburg parents and children walk to no school - wed 19 oct

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