Tuesday, 20 June 2023

 Annabelle CLEELAND (Euroa) (13:11): I visited St John’s Primary School in Euroa last week to meet the talented young students and to hear their concerns about the unsupervised school crossing. A lack of funding support from this state government has left our kids in a dangerous position. The local council has now decided it will no longer foot the bill for this government’s responsibility. No-one can explain how dangerous the decision to remove school crossing supervisors from high-traffic state-managed roads where primary school students frequently cross better than the students themselves. I want to quote the intelligent and clever grade 6 leader, Brianna Maher, who wrote about the dangers and need to protect her friends in an article in our local paper. Brianna said:

… if we did not have crossing guards cars would not know to stop quickly, because there would be no flags, whistles and fluorescent clothing to warn them.

She said:

There are so many accidents, each and every year on our roads. Without school crossing supervisors, this amount of accidents will increase dramatically …