School safety must be the priority

School safety must be the priority: "Fading paint and minor wall cracking, particularly in schools which will ultimately be phased out, can be tolerated. But broken windows, loose paving stones and asbestos-ridden toilet blocks represent serious safety issues which must be addressed urgently."

My sister said when she was at the shops today there seemed to be an awful lot of school kids there and people who looked like they ought to be at school. It's hot. It has been stinking hot for days. Why are the students at the shops instead of school? Probably because there schools are not properly air conditioned and shopping centres are. Kids today have been brought up on sir conditioners and comfy surroundings. They are not the deprived. The are not children of the depression. They have no idea what making do means and they do not know how to economise. These students are the haves. Schools need to reflect heat because we need to look after our protected , delicate children. Sarcasm aside, it's 2008 and our schools should reflect eh changing times as do our shops and libraries. Schools should be clean, light, efficient, in a state of good repair, properly heated and cooled. The should have furniture which suits the size of students attending and it should be durable. The electronic stuff probably needs to be bolted down but it should be there. In many ways schools should be more like home these days because students are used to creature comforts. There should be landscaped gardens and proper facilities and shaded, proper areas for the students to sit. tertiary institutions seems to have revamped and reinvented themselves. Schools need to do that as well. Then any attempt to be uncivil in a civil environment should not be tolerated. It's not accepted or worked through elsewhere. It is just not tolerated. In our changing weather conditions then school-scaping should be a priority.