Shocking damage at 1st Vocational High School and 5th High School
sit-in
18 Oct 2021
/ 12:42
CORFU. Teachers are expressing concern at the amount of damage caused.
Teachers are expressing their fears that more inestimable damage has been done at the Vocational High School-5th High School, which also houses the Lab Centre following the new sit-in by pupils on Saturday.
Three charges have already been filed by the principals for destruction, vandalism and theft during the previouss sit-ins.
According to Corfu Lab Centre principal Panayiotis Karvounis, the sit-in pupils have gone into the computer and simulation wing, where the equipment is valued at €200k.
"On Saturday night they re-entered the school building and began a new sit-in," he said. "We are afraid that this time nothing will remain undamaged. They have tools with them and are destroying everything."
Corfu 1st Lab Centre serves approximately 1,000 pupils from the Vocational High School and the public colleges and whatever damage is done will directly prevent lessons from being conducted there.
The amount of destruction that has happened was discovered on Thursday 14 October, when the school reopened following the sit-in in order to disinfect and clean the building. What was seen was shocking as the pupils had left nothing undamaged. Broken glass, desks and chairs, collapsed ceilings, rubbish everywhere, slogans sprayed on the walls and holes in the walls.
The most serious damage, however, was done in the Lab Centre, where nearly all the equipment - worth thousands of Euros - was destroyed and some of it was stolen. According to Mr. Karvounis, over €100k worth of damage was done and he added that the sit-in is being carried out without either the pupils' council meeting or a coordinating body being set up to decide.
The irony is that one of the pupils' demands is for an improvement in school equipment and infrastructure!
Sit-ins continuing
Meanwhile, the sit-in at Argyrades Junior High, where there are also high school classes, is continuing. Pupils are demanding an end to minimum university entrance marks, less material to be examined and are complaining about the school building.
Lessons for pupils at schools with sit-ins are being conducted online for as long as necessary.
Three charges have already been filed by the principals for destruction, vandalism and theft during the previouss sit-ins.
According to Corfu Lab Centre principal Panayiotis Karvounis, the sit-in pupils have gone into the computer and simulation wing, where the equipment is valued at €200k.
"On Saturday night they re-entered the school building and began a new sit-in," he said. "We are afraid that this time nothing will remain undamaged. They have tools with them and are destroying everything."
Corfu 1st Lab Centre serves approximately 1,000 pupils from the Vocational High School and the public colleges and whatever damage is done will directly prevent lessons from being conducted there.
The amount of destruction that has happened was discovered on Thursday 14 October, when the school reopened following the sit-in in order to disinfect and clean the building. What was seen was shocking as the pupils had left nothing undamaged. Broken glass, desks and chairs, collapsed ceilings, rubbish everywhere, slogans sprayed on the walls and holes in the walls.
The most serious damage, however, was done in the Lab Centre, where nearly all the equipment - worth thousands of Euros - was destroyed and some of it was stolen. According to Mr. Karvounis, over €100k worth of damage was done and he added that the sit-in is being carried out without either the pupils' council meeting or a coordinating body being set up to decide.
The irony is that one of the pupils' demands is for an improvement in school equipment and infrastructure!
Sit-ins continuing
Meanwhile, the sit-in at Argyrades Junior High, where there are also high school classes, is continuing. Pupils are demanding an end to minimum university entrance marks, less material to be examined and are complaining about the school building.
Lessons for pupils at schools with sit-ins are being conducted online for as long as necessary.
