Four deputies on school tour

Thursday 26th February 2009, 2:29PM GMT.

Head teacher Peter Le Cheminant, right, shows Deputy Barry Paint around Les Beaucamps High. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 0725813)

ALL deputies were invited to tour Les Beaucamps School to see the condition it is in, but only four took up the offer.

Barry Paint, Tony Spruce, John Gollop and Mike Garrett toured the school at the invitation of Education. The tour started at 4.15pm on a Tuesday.

Deputy Paint was a pupil just a year after it opened.

‘I was one of the people who thought it could be repaired,’ he said.

‘I went to school there from 1959 until 1961 and it was brand new. I have been shocked by the state the school has fallen into.’

His 15-year-old grandson attends the school and two more will start in the next few years.

‘The school has been so neglected. I don’t know how past Education Departments have allowed it to get into such a dangerous state.’

He saw where a window fell. Now they are wired to the frames.

‘We saw windows with towels on them to catch the water dripping in. It wasn’t even raining when we visited. We went into the music room and it was so damp it smelt like a German bunker. It’s terrible and it’s appalling. Really appalling.’

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Steven

February 26, 2009 at 4:07 pm

I am actually surprised by this. For all the gripes we have about our politicians (and I know it’s our ‘national’ pastime) I still believed that they cared about our childrens education.

If they don’t care much for our childrens education then we are certainly being ripped off by being taxed at all and paying their wages.

I would wager my entire net worth that an invitation to a dinner given out by one of the finance houses would have drawn a much larger turnout.

Cue the excuses.

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Jackie

February 27, 2009 at 12:48 pm

Or the deputies new it was a pointless excercise> So we have Barry Paint and the head pointing at wired up doors and windows. Simple solution – fix the windows. £30million saved.

Jackie for Education anyone? ;)

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Stephen John

February 28, 2009 at 3:30 pm

Jackie

Your appointed!!!

First instruction should be get on with educating, and stop the PR games.

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Vince

March 8, 2009 at 2:28 am

A PR game? For what gain?

Get on with the education Stevey John?

Better working environments = Better education. Teaching kids in a rundown school, while other kids in the Island reap benefits of great facilities, all because they live 2 miles north of them, is surely damaging to esteem and childrens welfare and not to mention the education!

Certain important issues should not be swept aside. Getting rid of the grant schemes for children who want PONCY education instead of state schooling is a good way of saving money and thus far more LOGICAL and also MORAL.

When I attended Les Beaucamps the place was falling apart and that was 6 years ago now!!
Myself and kids who have attended Beaucamps would have given anything for better facilities!

;)

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