100 km travelling to school
Sydney students are travelling up to 100 kilometres both day to keep your mind on selective schools, with a quantity of travelling at slightest two hours across the metropolitan scarcely to pick up to class, a prefigure investigation reveals.
NSW instruction Minister fleece Stokes believed the pass through epoch were a “high parallel of sacrifice for a juvenile individual that be supposed to not be required to make a excellence education” and not compulsory that students would be completely as all right served at their resident school.
“Gifted students resolve not essential to move to selective schools to grasp an superb education,” Mr Stokes said.
The “phenomenal distances” students are arranged to tour in addition knowingly adds to the passage congestion on Sydney’s roads, according to means of transport school Stephen Greaves.
At North Sydney Boys, which was ranked third in end year’s HSC results, students go from Erskine recreational area in the city’s west, a 56-kilometre one-way trip, as extremely as from Gymea and Peakhurst in the south and Glenfield in the south-west.
