The island separated to build a new high school

For decades, children at the country have been divided by the place of the island’s only high school.

The effigies north of the fourth largest island in Scotland go to school in Tobermori, which is its main settlement.

But most of the one-and-a-half-hour drive in the south face to leave their families and to catch Oban on the Scottish mainland to catch a boat, where they live in school hostels during the week.

With the plans being made to fall into a state of dislocation with the TOBERMORY high school and to build a multi-silver pound replacement, many people in the south see as a chance to consider it as a historical injustice.

They are campaigning for a new school such as a more central location such as Craignure, which is the home of the main boat port and island hospital.

This will allow students from both ends of the island to attend the same school – so children in the south will be able to stay at home after reaching the age of secondary school.

But in the north of the island, some parents want the new school to be built close to the existing high school site in Tobrumori.

Argyll and Bute Council have reduced four options for the location of the new school, and were due to decision making on Thursday – but the vote has been delayed till a special meeting of the council on 7 March.

The new development will be a replacement for the current high school, which means that wherever it is built, it will be a nursery, primary and secondary school campus.

The city will be left without any school by choosing any place other than TOBERMORY.

Several community members had expected that a “divided option” would be made available to build a central high school as well as a new primary school and nursery for the Tobermory community, but the council says it is very expensive.

Marion lives in McClen Toberori and her two daughters currently go to high school.

While the decision will not directly affect his family, Marian feels that it is “a chance to correct it for every child living on the island”.

While she feels that it is not important that the “lack of emotions” of families in the country’s Ross, she worries about the impact on the village she has called home for her life.

He told BBC Scotland News: “Tobemori cannot lose its primary school.

“This will have a great impact on businesses on high street, and I think we will lose the community’s feeling of having children around the city during the day.”

Karsig village is four miles from the main road through Ross in the country, which is Amy Simpson and his daughters Daisy, six, and Rosie, four homes.

Amy said that if the favorite option of a new school council is selected in Tobemori, she will feel forced to leave her village when her children reach the age of the secondary school, rather than they are separated from them if they ride in Oban.

He said: “We love our lives here, we have become an integral part of our community.

“We don’t want to leave and we do not want to get our children out of this community, this is where they were born and where they are growing up.”

At a distance of fifty miles south of Tobemori, a trip that takes about an hour in a car due to single track roads is Banseen village.

Rob Claxton-Inham, who lives on a croft with her husband, said the future was uncertain because she does not know where her foster child would go to the secondary school.

As soon as things stand, she faces travel and boarding in Oban every week – such as all children in the south of the island.

He told the BBC Scotland News: “As a foster career, our child has already faced separation and disadvantages from his birth family and has to infection as his substandard careists.

“At the age of 11, again in a school, above the sea, where he has to receive a boat, where he will not get our day to day support, the idea of ​​re-infectioning it is difficult.”

Rob said that high school has always been a “issue” for the community, and people have learned to be as much as they can be with it “.

“But this situation is developing something new and it really hurts that Argyll and Bute Councils can develop something new and actually when doing that plan, to continue leaving people at this end of the island,” he said.

Ribka McLean and four of her children also live in Banson village.

Her youngest children participate in local primary school, but things are slightly more complicated for her secondary-structured children.

He said: “For me, what I wishing is equality in the island for all children, whether it is for primary age, elementary education or secondary students.

“One of the major aspects of this is that secondary school is centrally based, so all children can be present and no child should be kept in a position to choose between education and family.”

Rebka has succeeded in arranging to stay with a family friend during the week for her son, Jude, 15,, so she is a little close to the house, while her daughter, 14-year-old Acacia, is in the house.

Jude is also in favor of a center-located school, so that when it comes to the time of their siblings to go to high school, they can stay at home and get less uninterrupted education.

He said: “I am worried that because I have to travel till now, I have less time in school.

“I want to be an engineer, which requires directly.

“I am worried that I will not be able to get those people because I have to travel so much and I am probably behind in the classroom.”

It is clear that the debate on where the new school should be built is an issue that is consuming the islands.

Everywhere you go, everyone has an opinion on it.

The Argyll and Bute Council said: “Creating a new 2-18 campus on MULL is Argyll and the biggest investment of the council, which is an estimated £ 43M.

“After comprehensive community engagement and detailed assessment, the councilors would consider a report recommending a preferred site on February 27, already with a proposal to hold a special meeting to consider the issue on 7 March.”