Member for the Western Metropolitan Region, Andrew Elsbury with Parliamentary Secretary for Education Inga Peulich at Galvin Park Secondary College. 73725 Picture: XAVIER SMERDON
By XAVIER SMERDON
FOUR western suburbs schools, including the plagued Galvin Park Secondary College in Werribee, have received a high-profile visit.
Parliamentary Seretary for Education Inga Peulich visited the school last week at the invitation of the State Member for the Western Metropolitan Region, Andrew Elsbury.
Ms Peulich and Mr Elsbury also visited Sunshine Secondary College, Victoria University Secondary College, and Werribee Secondary College last Monday.
Galvin Park SC has recently struggled in the lead up to VCE exams after several roofs caved in due to significant water damage.
But Mr Elsbury insisted that the visit was organised before the school started collapsing.
“I set up agendas for this visit well and truly before the issues here started. We were coming here anyway,” Mr Elsbury said.
“It sends a strong message to the local community that the Baillieu Government will work hard to ensure that we try to fix the mess left behind by the former Labor Government.”
Mr Peulich told Star it was unknown how long the school would have to wait before it was up to code again.
“It’s fortuitous that we’re here today. This school has been the subject of a very, very substantial level of neglect,” Ms Peulich said.
“We’re here to offer the school the support they need.”
It comes just days after Mr Elsbury announced that every school in Wyndham would be the subject of a state-wide audit.
“We realise there is a lot of work to be done to fix the problems left behind by the Brumby Government in Melbourne’s West, and it is only with speaking with school principals and school councils will we be able to get an accurate assessment of what problems have been left behind,” Ms Peulich said.
