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Re: KRudd gives school with one kid $140k

Krudd the Dud <never.make.a.hard.decis...@gutless.wonder.com>

On Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:02:21 +1000, "Dr. Sir John Howard, AC, WSCMoF"

<""sirjohnhoward\"@@@gmail.com."> wrote:
>A SCHOOL with just one pupil for 2010 has been given a $140,000 government grant
>to build a covered playground - even though it already has a new one.

>Another $110,000 grant from the Rudd Government's $14.7 billion education
>stimulus package will be used for classroom refurbishment at tiny The Lagoon
>Public School, 20km from Bathurst in New South Wales central west.

>But even locals say it is a shocking waste of money. The tiny rural school has
>one teacher and five pupils, two of whom go to high school next year.

>The mother of two girls there said she was considering transferring them to a
>larger school.

>That would leave just one pupil - the teacher's daughter - as the beneficiary of
>the federal funds.

Obviously another ill thought Labor plan.

No doubt about it - when it comes to economic matters, Labor are real
cretins!