The point of my letter is please Mr Piccoli let our new MP Helen Dalton do her job having meetings, collecting information and taking that information up to Parliament to try and fix problems like chronic teacher shortages.

You had your go for 18 years and our basic rights - water, health and education deteriorated under your representation please let our new representative have a go fixing the mess your ambivalent crony capitalism created.

Reading the remarks of former member for Murray, and former education minister, Adrian Piccoli I was disgusted and appalled!

Who in the hell do you think you are? How dare you insult the town who gave you the chance to get where you are today; you should be ashamed of yourself.

Why do you think you are entitled to belittle and demean teachers who disagree to a failed merger of the now dysfunctional MRHS. Students are missing classes due to teacher shortages; there's been a rise in bullying and behavioral problems, results and reports of students attending the school have been lost and misplaced. Quite obviously the merger has failed students, parents and teachers alike as the government rushed and underfunded the merger.

The audacity of you to tell teachers if they: "Don't like it, get out of here, move, leave town, leave the school or go and get a job elsewhere" is just disrespectful and impertinent on your behalf. For a man who is presumably well educated, I think you may be suffering from a case of 'sour grapes'. Quite obviously you are embarrassed (and you should be) of such a failure your school merger has become.

The NSW Department of Education even suppress dissent, disciplining teachers who dare to publicly express their legitimate concerns. Australian laws provide all employees with basic rights and protection in the workplace. To ensure students in the NSW public education system are provided with every opportunity for a 'quality' education in a 'safe environment'.

Adrian, it is a lot more than a 'couple' of teachers complaining about your funded merger of Griffith's public high schools. In your 17 years as a Member of Murray you had one job to do, and we can all see that the results have not been good, not good for our schools and not good for our community!

Then again, maybe you should be proud, because in your great wisdom as you suggested, many parents, teachers and students alike have taken your brilliant advice and left.

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Griffith and Wade High School boundaries were separated by the railway line that divides the town, south of the railway all children attended Griffith High School and on the north, children attended Wade High School.

We mothers supported the school canteen and we would be rostered on once a month and all the profit went to help the school and at the end of the year the principal would invite us for morning tea and we would receive a Wade High School wine glass.

What has gone wrong now that we have one big school and school children are missing classes on account of teacher shortages?

In January 2014 our local member and Minister for Education Adrian Piccoli cut $1.7 billion in education, sacked 800 TAFE staff and hiked up TAFE education fees and then in March 2014 Piccoli backed the sale of 17 teacher's houses in Griffith.

Teachers need to have incentive to leave cities for country towns. Hay, Leeton and Darlington Point are offered subsidised rent and incentive transfer and Griffith teachers have no such offer of subsidies, why not?

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