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Former principal questions Taihape Area School's 13ha farm transfer


Former principal questions Taihape Area School s 13ha farm transfer
15 Mar, 2021 09:48 PM
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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.
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Taihape Area School gets rebuild a decade after flaw identified


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. ....

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