Madras College meeting hears call for ‘reality check’
ByLeeza Clark
Plans for the new Madras and other new Fife schools on show at the meeting in the Blyth Hall.
A “reality check” is needed when it comes to deciding where a new Madras College should be built.
At a public meeting in Newport’s Blyth Hall last night, Fife Council’s area education officer John McLaughlin said nothing would please everyone, and no site was perfect.
However, he added: “The reality check is that eight years on, can we now come to a position where the education of young people takes some kind of precedence in the community?”
Voicing his frustration at the length of time a new Madras has been on the drawing board, he pointed out it had originally been in the same planning scheme at Fife Council as Dunfermline High School back in 2005.
“Dunfermline High has been operating now since August, children are already getting the benefit of it,” he said, at what was the second of two public meetings on Fife Council’s proposal to build a new Madras College on a site at Pipeland.
He said “with a fair wind” and a commitment from the whole community, the new site could be open for business in the academic year 2016-17.
“With a really fair wind there is the potential to have youngsters in school in 2016,” he added.
Madras College meeting hears call for ‘reality check’
