School a ‘godsend’ for students
I write in response to your article “Life-saving school to close” (Bendigo Advertiser, July 22).
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In the article it talks about students being transitioned back into mainstream school and confident the students would cope well in mainstream schools.
Students that attend this school were not accepted in mainstream schooling, that is why an alternative school had to be found.
It really is the best school to keep these students in the education system without being bullied or harassed by principals, some teachers and students.
I cannot speak highly enough of the Educational Services Unit and the staff and how it has been a godsend to my son.
The teachers make an effort to work with these students and find out how they best learn and teach them from there.
We need to ensure this school is to remain open and viable to the students learning abilities.
Lots of these students are also on the autism spectrum, which was not mentioned in this article.
You cannot always have a square peg fit into a round hole and that’s how this school has helped these students out.
They are not accepted in mainstream, like people like to believe.
Leanne Cullen, Strathfieldsaye
A little effort goes a long way
We cannot continue to put organic waste into landfill.
Some kind of council action to divert it into composting is essential and incorporating collection of green waste into the regular household rubbish collection system will be the best way to do it.
We live in a suburban house and compost all we can but there is still the odd collection of prunings or the accumulation of citrus peel that we have to put in the red bin.
We will be happy to have a green bin, even if we don’t put it out very often.
I would like to see the green bin and the recycle bin as the core of Bendigo’s waste collection system and the red bin as a once-in- a-while mop up for what doesn’t go into either of the others.
It is true, certainly, that a little more effort is needed; rubbish needs to be sorted so that the red bin doesn’t contain any noisome matter.
We have used such a system in a previous residence where the green bin was weekly and the other two alternating fortnightly.
It would be disappointing if the objectors to the “green bin” are motivated by the fact that we will have to take a bit more care when allocating waste to a particular bin, or if they were simply objecting, on principle, to being advised to what to do with their rubbish.
It would be even worse if they were objecting to this inevitable move for purely political reasons.
John McCallum, Strathdale
Double standard exposed
For an organic waste collection exemption the ratepayer has to sign a statuary declaration, yet the Kangaroo Flat Enterprise publicly stated they had $1 million, so where is it?
Where are the similar legal binding documents?
There is a big different between food scraps and $1 million.
Cheryl M Smallpage, Huntly
Keep profits in Australia
There is a lot of hype and publicity about Aldi and buying as many Australian goods as possible, but the profits go back to their parent company in Germany.
Please consider that Coles and Woolworths are Australian-owned by Australian investors.
Being retired and an investor, I depend on dividends, not the pension, for my income, so I think we should stop the money from flowing back to Germany.