By XAVIER SMERDON
THE long term future of one of Wyndham’s most trouble plagued schools is still in doubt with a spokesperson for the school council saying they have been “hung out to dry”.
School council Vice-President at Galvin Park Secondary College, Anthony Monahan, said anxious students and their families had been told they would not find out until after May this year what would become of the damaged school.
The school has had a question mark hanging over it after it was damaged by heavy rain last year, leaving gaping holes in some buildings and meaning students had to be bussed to another school in Point Cook.
At a community meeting held at the school last year representatives from the Department of Education said that a report into the air quality at the school had been undertaken that showed the staff and students were not in danger of exposure to asbestos.
But last week a spokesperson from the Department said they would not share the results of the report until the start of the school year.
“Galvin Park Secondary College will be clean, safe, dry and ready for classes for the first day of the 2012 school year,” the spokesperson said.
Mr Monahan told Star any furniture or other equipment that seemed to be beyond repair had been destroyed by the Department and the school had now been told they would need to replace them before the start of the new school year.
Mr Monahan said the school was still unaware of what the Minister for Education, Martin Dixon, had planned for the school.
“We’ve been hung out to dry on that one,” he said.
“We won’t know until after May what level of commitment will be made to rebuilding the school.”
