Their uniform says " Driver High School" yet the School sign now says Palmerston High School !... So just where is the Palmerston City Secondary High School.
So does this now mean that we have a history of a lost CITY ?.
This posting started off as a enquiry of due concern about ( The Safety,Security and Care of Children ) in our Northern Territory Schools but now that concern has turned into a " Complaint of Commitment ".
Notes and Updates: 29 February 2008.
Some what of a follow up in what I discovered today 29 February 2008 on the internet which you too can get some more information by way of using this schools Multi Media posting on the internet in which you can also look at this schools own web site and indeed take note of what it has called itself as being " Palmerston High School ".
Let alone the fact of what that school should be correctly posting itself to be on its own school banner in which the general public can see clearly without having to be asked to assume anything at all other than in what it should be correctly called " The Palmerston City Secondary High School " on all its school signs and indeed on the FRONT ENTRANCE SIGN of that school building.
Odd then to have seen that it was only mid last year 2007 that the sign of " Driver High School " was taken down at the corner of " Chin Gong CCT " and Tilston Ave where that sign was posted for some 7.5 years and also lets not for one moment forget the name change of the Big green signs at the corner of Temple Tce and Tilston Ave stating " Palmerston City High School " which was removed after our Prime Minister Mr John Howards visit of 2007.
Also is the fact that nearing that corner of " Chin Gong CCT " on Tilston Ave we have our local public bus stop shelter the only one in our area to which is having to be repainted every week due to the over whelming amount vandalism done to it by way of also graffiti and filth which is also in clear view of this school.
In which also we have seen some teachers having been smoking at the back of this local public bus stop shelter in which is partly on school grounds and that is also when students have also been present in and on the other side of that local public bus stop shelter also doing the same thing and even spitting on the ground in which also we have all seen this happening along with also having taken note of the fact that food scraps being used to defecate the seating in which covers the ground, walls and seating in ants.
In that from at least year 10 and upwards we have listened to these students in them having also taken to peeling off the paint work of this local public bus stop shelter.
Odd too that we have noted that it seems more girls than boys have taken to doing this graffiting and filth and generally showing unacceptable and anti social behaviour !.
It also has to be noted too in which now the Highways Department have taken over this job of having to repaint this local public bus stop shelter in not it seems for keeping it clean for local residents to use.
But rather more in keeping it clean for any 'tourist' that may see it or use that shelter.
Our respects have to go to the personal of the Highways Department in them having been presented with the task of cleaning up and repainting such a mess of vandalism coming too from our so called future generation of adults.
Seeing how this school also differed so greatly with in itself over the past 8 years in seeing also these school childrens uniforms still in which their uniforms show their school logo in which is stated to be " Driver High School " this is NOT a new school but the same school which of just recently has been calling itself " Palmerston High School at palmerston " and the fact was & still is they are still currently doing so even since our CITY was legally declared to be " The CITY of Palmerston since 2000 ".
Perhaps ALL parents of this School and other schools with in our CITY could now claim a refund for their childrens uniforms covering the past 8 years.
You can ' READ and SEE " for yourselves also this then " NULL " statement done by both the school principal " Jenny Nash " in what she stated on this schools own web site in which is stated to be " Palmerston High School " and also seemingly seems to acknowledge some what that there are indeed Palmerston City residents about our fair City but none of these CITY schools seem to use the word City in any of their school postings as even being within the metropolitan area of our CITY of Palmerston.
But what also of " Shiela Day " ," Ms Donna Ballwin " and " Ms Charlie Marringo " of " The Department of Education/Training and Employment " in what they have stated to me concerning their own " data base " as statement of fact that all these schools along with that now being called " Palmerston High School " are in " Palmerston & Rural area " this is now their non compliance to a DECLARED FACT concerning our City and seeing how these schools are all with in our CITY of Palmerston need I say more !.
Their web is called " About us - Palmerston High School.
How odd is it to have read by way of the internet whats been stated by the school principal " Jenny Nash " in whats been called " Palmerston High School " on their own schools web site knowing full well too about the Palmerston City residents.
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Palmerston High School is located 25kms east of the Darwin city center. The campus is situated on attractive grounds with tropical gardens and expansive lawn areas.
End of Quote.
Don't you mean.
" The Palmerston City Secondary High School " is located just approx 4 km from our Palmerston CITY Council Office and just about the same distance from our Palmerston City CBD.
In which this period is extensive covering some 3 months of the year in which also a lot of these children use the public swimming pool which is right across the road from that school which also acts in holding some of the " Arafura Games " at that time of the year as well which is unfortunate as most swimmers suffer badly from this form of pollution..
Also we have great hiding places for children to which they can abscond from school and for hiding predators to which is the long grass as just recently as 18-Feb-2008 we had to phone The Palmerston City Council on the 18-Feb-2008 complaining of the height of this grass and safety to residents and children seeing the fact it was over 5 ft tall in some areas.
I also mention the fact that we just recently had to get the Palmerston City Council to REMOVE a dead snake so perhaps there are a few live ones also in this jungle high long grass too which children are walking through and which is near the swimming pool.
There you are " Jenny Nash " some what a more honest description of just what these children put up with let alone the school not knowing where they could be in not being able to find these children at any time seeing yous have not got a " truancy officer " at this school.
Perhaps next time ask the children !.
I mean yous are supposedly educators but still yous all continually misrepresent our children along with our CITY in which we should NOT have to assume anything other than the FACTS but we are all being misrepresented in your use of broadcasting by way of Multi Media to other schools across Australia as well as international to others and using children to do this too which is intolerable.
News 29 February 2008.
So as to get a clear canvas on which to scribble with their textas and spray cans this then is their art lessons which seemly all think this to be acceptable behaviour !.
Palmerston High school is proud to be the center of secondary schooling for Palmerston City residents. Our school works through the Palmerston City Schools alliance to provide a streamlined education for students from Pre School to Year 12.
" The Palmerston City Secondary High School " is proud to be the center of secondary schooling for Palmerston City residents.
Our school works through the Palmerston City Schools alliance to provide a streamlined education for students from Pre School to Year 12.
The campus is situated on attractive grounds with tropical gardens and expansive lawn areas to which a lot of students are allowed to roam the streets,smoke, drink alcohol and have a general poor attitude for any further education also for the children that don't smoke these children do suffer from eye irritations,sore throats, hay fever and respiratory problems just to name a few due to all the pollution in that smoke due to back burning which most children, infants, and elderly residents of The City of Palmerston do suffer badly from.
As for the location of this school and to its surroundings I would say what I have stated is a far better description I think seeing how we have taken photographs of the burning and the falling ash over the years so that was not so bad after all was it now !.
