Teachers are missing and students are running around unsupervised at Murrumbidgee High School, according to Shooters, Fishers and Farmers party candidate Helen Dalton.
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A parent told Mrs Dalton that there were 13 classes missing teachers at the Wade High site on Friday, something she attributes to the "half-baked, half-funded" school merger.
"The teachers are working very hard, but the government has let them down," Mrs Dalton said.
"At the end of the day, it's funding, not merging, that will fix the problems in our high school."
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She describes the $25 million in funding to merge the two schools as woefully inadequate, something that the then NSW Department of Education executive director Anthony Perrau previously agreed with.
"$25 million is not going to cut it, I think it is at least $45… it may even go more than that," Mr Perrau told a Griffith meeting in 2016.
Griffith would eventually make do with $25 million, which enrages Mrs Dalton as a former teacher.
Mrs Dalton said she'd prefer a super school on a single site, as well as increased school funding and financial incentives for teachers.
She said Griffith was being neglected, and she said the government was not doing offering enough financial incentives to attract teachers into the city.
But Member for Murray Austin Evans said the government was in fact attracting teachers to Griffith, pointing to the newly bought block of units on Couch Road put aside for incoming teachers as an example.
He said there was bound to be initial problems with the school merger, but that he was working hard to iron out the problems.
"I've been talking with P&Cs, with teachers, with parents, with management - any issues people have raised we've passed on to the education minister and we're addressing those concerns," Mr Evans said.
"There's no magic bullet for these problems; it’s always been an issue to attract professionals to the regions, and this is no different."
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