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Former principal questions Taihape Area School s 13ha farm transfer 15 Mar, 2021 09:48 PM 9 minutes to read Taihape locals pitched in to buy and set up a 13-hectare farm for students 30 years ago. Photo / RNZ RNZ By Phil Pennington for RNZ How do officials in Wellington come to take a small farm off a struggling school in Taihape, when they said they wouldn t sell it if the children still used it? The local MP, and the former principal and school board chair, all say it amounts to the government stealing the farm from the town. Read More Advertisement The college was closed in 2004. ....
The Education Ministry's sale of Taihape Area School's educational farm asset to put into the Treaty settlements landbank has divided a community and raised issues over the legality of the move. ....
Taihape Area School is getting a rebuild. a decade after flaws were exposed. Photo: Google Maps But that won t begin until next year, a decade after Taihape Area School s myriad flaws were exposed, and in the meantime it faces whopping power bills to keep its classrooms healthy. Its former board of trustees chair blames official incompetence, and fears that the rebuild on proven less-than-stable land won t go well. But the school says its existing site is OK, its existing classrooms are healthy - which the Ministry of Education echoes - and that the rebuild will be fantastic . More than 250 children who attend years 1 to 13 at the 60 percent Māori school, face another winter in spaces described like this in official reports that have ping-ponged back and forth since 2014. ....
Taihape Area School gets rebuild a decade after flaw identified nzherald.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nzherald.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Taihape Area School gets rebuild a decade after flaw identified nzherald.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nzherald.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.