Melton MP Don Nardella hopes more funding will be on its way to Bacchus Marsh and Melton schools if Labor wins November’s state election.
But while the opposition has promised funding for several schools across the state, no announcements have been made for the Melton electorate.
Mr Nardella and opposition education spokesman James Merlino visited four schools last Wednesday – Bacchus Marsh and Melton secondary colleges, Exford Park Primary School and Melton Specialist School.
“James now has a better understanding of the schools and what the community has been dealing with. He was shocked,” Mr Nardella said. He said Melton’s schools were struggling to keep up with the town’s growing population.
Exford Park school council president Bonnie Lang said the school was seeking funding to rebuild at a bigger site.
“We’re getting a couple more buildings in the next couple of weeks and then we can’t fit any more. We will go over the cap of students you’re allowed, but being a public school, you can’t say no to new students.”
Bacchus Marsh Secondary College principal Dionne Fenton said the school was in the same condition it was when two campuses were amalgamated in 2009.
“One of the school captains said to [the MPs], ‘we came to the school as year 7s thinking it would be a matter of time until we got new buildings, we will leave as year 12s without a piece of soil being turned’.”
