Eastern Victoria Region
Renee HEATH (Eastern Victoria) (12:53): (1695) My question is for the Minister for Education. Constituents in my area have contacted me about schools in Sale, Pakenham, Officer, Hastings, Monbulk and Wonthaggi, just to name some of them, about the chaos that is going on in schools. One of the issues that they have raised is that because there are not enough teachers, schools basically have monitors going between classrooms just trying to keep the students in order. Parents are very concerned that this is detrimentally impacting their children and about what their choices are going to be in the future. So my question is: what is the minister doing to address the teacher shortage in the Eastern Victoria Region?