Here’s content from the Department of Education first quarter performance report for Fiscal Year 2017:
- Repeated requests since last quarterly report.
- Still have classrooms in need of fans and lights to be fixed
- The school needs about 150 to 200 desks and chairs to replace old ones
- We really need a new bathroom as our school is over populated.
- We need two custodians.
- A fence is needed in front of the school…it’s an access road for dogs to enter the school grounds and messing all over.
- We only have five laptops that are working, the rest are damaged.
In an unprecedented move, DOE has included reports from all public high schools and elementary schools listing their achievements and their needs.
Nearly all of the school reports start off with “repeated requests since the last quarter report, indicating that the schools’ wish lists have remained just that, wish lists.
Water is not much of a problem in most school as it is for Alataua/Taputapu Elementary School.
Students have been known to drink from the bathroom sink especially after PE classes in the afternoon when the few water fountains in the school are depleted and the school cafeteria is closed.
Students in some classes have to pay 5 or 10 cents to get a cup of water. The money, according to students, will help their teacher refill the water dispenser.
Some parents and students told KHJ News that if they get the water from the outside watertap behind the ECE school, then they won’t get charged to drink the water.
Last year, the school PTA donated four water dispensers for the school to ensure that students have enough drinking water.
But some teachers who talked to KHJ News said that these are not enough.
The teachers say they try to provide water for their students.
It remains to be seen whether a hearing tomorrow morning of the House Education Committee will bring up some of the school needs.
The purpose of the hearing is to discuss concerns raised by Saole faipule Kitara Vaiao about recent break ins and vandalism at Leone Midkiff and Leone high School.
The hearing will be chaired by Representative Vaetasi Tuumolimoli Moliga.
