Nov 13 - GSD Says Bayside Disruption Is “Unacceptable”
The GSD says it was shocked to hear that teachers have been unable to continue their classes at Bayside school today and that the school has had to cancel lessons this morning due to the unacceptable disruption being caused by nearby Government works at Glacis estate.
A statement from the party continues: “Clearly no consideration is being given by developers to the needs of educators and the children that they are educating. We call on the caretaker Government to intervene and allow classes to continue in a normal manner. While some disruption might be acceptable, clearly things have become intolerable for these measures to have been necessary.
“We further note from the GSLP Manifesto published today that their plans for Bayside are to halve the existing footprint and create a tower block for the children and teachers to work in. Apart from the enormous disruption over a period of years that this will cause, indeed it is not clear how the school will function at all. It clearly demonstrates that education is certainly not a priority for the GSLP/Liberals as they would shun the ideal opportunity to provide state of the art facilities for comprehensive education at Rooke, a site with all the required space, and prefer to sell this for a developer to profit from while shoe-horning boys secondary education into a tower block so they can build a small field next to it!”
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