'Get your act together' La Mare students urge States
PUPILS at La Mare de Carteret are today firing a 'get your act together' warning to the States, as they reveal their school is now in such a state of disrepair that vermin came through a hole in one classroom floor.
Drafty, cold, leaking and battered buildings are a daily reality for students and staff at the La Mare de Carteret schools, who reacted with disappointment and frustration to the announcement the long-awaited £60m. rebuild would now face at least an extra year of delays.
High school head teacher Vicky Godley said the whole saga was like a carrot
'being dangled' and called for decisive action by the States next month to avoid any more demoralising setbacks.
Pupils at the high school also gave an insight into the latest conditions and the feeling of being 'left behind' other schools, after it emerged that the redevelopment would now be postponed from, at the
least, September 2017 to September 2018.
Lauren Guille, 14, who is deputy chairman of the Bailiwick Youth Forum, revealed the extent of the disrepair.
'The drama hut had a hole in the floor recently and a rat came up from the floor,' she said. 'It was awful.
'You look to come to school and to be in a fun and safe environment, but it does not feel like you would expect a school to be.'
