🍺 PUB TEST: Should School Grounds Be Open After Hours?

Does opening school grounds after hours pass the pub test?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda jam.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Nation opening schools after hours? Does it pass the pub test?
Implemented under the Julia Gillard's watch a few years ago,
they built these ginormous fences because schools were just getting
burnt down all the time. Remember every week a school
had burned own.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
There was breaking, enter trespass, vandalism incidents. They put these
big fences up. Chris Min's, the new South Wales Premier,
has said, this is a significant amount of green space
that the public have been locked out of and we're
telling kids to get off their mobile phones and to
go outside and play. But with our high density living,
where are those spaces their school?

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Where did the children play? As Cat Stephen said, But
when we were kids, I used to love going up
to the school on the skateboard because they had brand
new ash Felt and we'd ride around there. But we
wouldn't go wreck the place. We wouldn't set it on fire.
I once lent a bubbler running by accident that which
I felt guilty.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
I remember seeing it on the news.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
And you know I might have yeah anyway, Yeah, But we.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
Lived near the school oval and that was our entire
sort of hangout zone. That was a time opening schools
after alice. Does it pass the PUB test?

Speaker 1 (01:04):
No, it doesn't. I work in a school and if
the kids plain to play and there's no supervision, if
someone gets hurt, the parents will be up in arms
because there's no one out. They're superbot in their kids.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
Though it doesn't. I actually work at a school on
what they call a ga I do all the maintenance
looking after the school, and they have a thing called
share my Zone which the school's open through the school
breaks and the kids come in, they rip things out,
ants and that they destroy things. It's not a good idea.

(01:35):
It ends up costing the schools a lot of money.

Speaker 5 (01:38):
No, I don't think so. Counsels now do a lot
of work for parks in their areas, So why invite
vandaloosm into the school when the kids can go to
the parks? And plus, how do you change their mobile
phone usage anyway they're doing it.

Speaker 6 (01:55):
It passes the PUB.

Speaker 4 (01:56):
Test because it's an excellent use.

Speaker 6 (01:58):
Of free space out of ours, and handle correctly can
offer employment to someone for the care of those areas,
and it will mean that there's an opportunity also for
the community to maybe grow that little bit closer together
rather than brought themselves apart.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Well, there you go.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Interesting.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
Most people are saying no. They sound like they're not
the kids who are looking for somewhere to go and play.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
And there's nothing better than running a skateboard on freshly
laid ashfelt.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
Or maybe wet cement. Where else can you do your
handprints these days?

Speaker 2 (02:30):
You had a lot of stuff back in the seventies.