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Mould and other issues have closed classrooms at Hutt Valley High School.
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Lucy, her last name withheld, a senior student at Hutt Valley High, blames the government. I have been let down, she said at a meeting in the school hall earlier this month which families called to seek answers from the Ministry of Education.
Lucy had just spent the first three days of term two working from home because her classrooms are a health risk. Help has come too late. It is horrendously overdue, she added.
Hutt Valley High s problems are national news. Labour MP Ginny Andersen of Hutt South is using it as an example of chronic underfunding of schools. This is made worse, others say, by a property funding model that confuses the responsibilities of tenants (school boards) and owner (the ministry).