John Nicholson/Stuff Hutt Valley High School’s board of trustees chairman Hamish Bowen says problems at the school have been ignored by the Ministry of Education for years. Hutt Valley High School’s mouldy buildings did not become a priority for the Ministry of Education until classrooms were forced to close, the school’s board of trustees chairman says. This week the Lower Hutt school announced hundreds of senior students would have to spend half their time learning from home next term after toxic mould was found in several learning spaces. Thirteen classrooms and a dance studio have now been closed because they are unsafe.