Members statements
Echuca Primary School
Peter WALSH (Murray Plains) (10:58): I ask the Minister for Education, who is in the house, to show some common decency and respond to the two letters that she has received from Johnno Bell, who is the school council president at Echuca Primary School. Echuca Primary School has had an acting principal since June 2018 – for nearly five years they have had an acting principal. The school council wrote to the minister in August last year, wrote again to the minister in September last year and has not even had an acknowledgement of those letters, let alone a response. The school council wants to have certainty. They asked the minister for clarity around a permanent principal for the school so that the school families would know who is leading that school into the future. I ask the minister: please, would you actually have the courtesy to respond to the school council president and give some clarity to the families of that school in Echuca so that there is a permanent principal for the school into the future?