Hutt Valley High School

PHOTO: From next term, Year 12 and Year 13 students will have to work from home for two-and-a-half days a week. Photo: Google Maps

Hundreds of senior students from one of Wellington’s biggest high schools are being forced to study from home because their classrooms leak and are riddled with toxic mould.

The principal of Hutt Valley High School is blaming the Ministry of Education saying officials have known about the problems for years and failed to act.

From next term, Year 12 and Year 13 students will have to do their work from home for two-and-a-half days a week because there’s not enough room for them at school.

Two weeks ago teachers were given 30 minutes to clear their desks before a whole building was shut down and sealed off.

Thirteen classrooms, three bathrooms and a dance studio have been deemed unsafe.

This left the school struggling for space to teach its 1700 pupils and it resorted to holding multiple classes at a time in the hall and library.

On Monday it decided it would have to send at least 500 senior students home.

Parent at the school, Miranda Cross, was furious.

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