PARENTS are so concerned about Wyndham’s school shortage they are placing their children on waiting lists for schools in other municipalities.
Point Cook’s Leah Shin has two children aged three and five who are on the waiting list at a school almost an hour from home because she fears she won’t be able to enrol them at a local high school that isn’t overcrowded.
Her son attends Point Cook P-9 College, but Ms Shin is worried where he will go to school once he finishes year 9.
While sending her children to a school outside of Wyndham meant she would have to deal with Point Cook’s congested roads, she said it was better than them missing school.
“Some go as far as Geelong, Bacchus Marsh and Williamstown to get a place,” she said.
“This is a stressful situation for both parents and students. I wish there was a school in Wyndham that could accommodate us all.”
Ms Shin said the government had failed Point Cook’s children by not planning ahead and building more than one government senior high school in the suburb.
“Of all the schools in Point Cook, the vast majority are either P-6 or P-9 schools.
“It seems the children of Point Cook do not require an education beyond year 9.
“Primary schools are planned for Alamanda and Featherbrook [estates] but what happens to the older students?”
