Newly-established school ready to start classes today

 By PETER ESOP WARI

THE newly-established Lai Valley High School in the Mendi-Munihu electorate of Southern Highlands will start classes today.

Kip Primary School head teacher Raphael Tonpi said a headmaster and four other teachers were posted to the school by the provincial education board (PEB) and students had already registered.

“Everyone is happy that a new school has been established in the district,” he said. 

“Many of the students from the rural areas in the Mendi-Munihu, Imbonggu, Nipa-Kutubu districts and Kandep in Enga had been facing difficulty to go to distant schools and this is good news for them.”

Tonpi said hundreds of students had flooded the school but the  board of management would only take students who had been selected by the provincial education board as there were only three classes of Grade 9s this year.

“The people from Lower Lai have worked very hard for free and their effort had resulted in the new school opening its door for enrolment this year,” he said. 

“Lai Valley LLG president Jack Soal will provide the school with 20 desks and Niugini Building Supplies had given some materials to the school.”

Provincial education advisor Joel Raitano told The National that overcrowding had now become a serious problem in existing high and secondary schools and the provincial education board had endorsed Kuare High School in Ialibu-Pangia district and Lai Valley High School in Mendi-Munihu district.