Heaps of problems and needs that create difficulties in its proper operation, records in a letter the High School of Paralimni. This letter was recently submitted to the Safety and Health Committee of the Ministry of Education, by the general secretary of OELMEK, Mario Kaniklidis, along with letters from other schools that are ringing the bell for issues they are facing.
Paralimni High School records issues that need to be resolved and which concern the lack of classrooms, unsuitable rooms - shortages in laboratories, administrative spaces, common areas, storage areas - yard - fencing and electronic equipment. As mentioned, 646 students are currently studying, a number which is increasing as students with immigrant biographies who arrive in Cyprus, join for school throughout the school year.
Some of the problems listed in the letter are:
- The available classrooms are not enough for the 28 sections of the school, with the result that eight of them are mobile. In recent years the school has several prefabricated classrooms, which occupy a significant part of the school.
- One Language Room is not enough for the needs of the 28 departments.
- Technology laboratories need renovation.
- Computer labs and the Biology room need an emergency exit.
- There is no space for the school file, which is stacked in a storage room.
- School grounds need to be repaired.
- Instead of storage space, the school has three containers in its yard.
- Obsolete fencing.
- The outdoor areas frequented by students are uneven and in many places dangerous.
- In the yard there is a large open ditch, into which rainwater is channeled.
- On the west side of the school there is no emergency exit for ambulances and fire trucks.
Need for building reconstruction
In the letter, the school states that the above, in combination with other issues, create problems related to safety and health and the quality of education provided. At the same time, it is pointed out that the school, since it was built in 1987, has not received serious maintenance, as a result of which it presents problems and a picture of wear and tear.
“The High School needs immediate care from the State to become a modern, safe, functional and aesthetically pleasing building, like all the other public Secondary Schools in the free Famagusta area. "This will be achieved through a complete reconstruction of the school and not through rough, sporadic half-measures", the letter notes. Citing these issues to competent sources of the Ministry of Education, they stated that they will be examined within the possibilities that exist.
Source: Liberal