Parents and community groups claim pupils are being put in danger by the lack of crossing supervisors outside three Orange public schools.
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Teachers are forced to direct pupils, parents and carers across busy streets before and after school.
Trained and paid lollipop people are not provided by Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) at Glenroi Heights, Orange East and Bowen public schools.
Glenroi Community Group president Melissa Hatton, whose son attends Glenroi Heights Public School, said the situation was becoming dangerous outside the school as cars and buses had to squeeze down a narrow street while students, parents and carers tried to cross the road.
Miss Hatton said it was a long-term problem that needed to be resolved.
“This has been going on for years,” she said.
“I am very concerned about it now.
“It’s a narrow road with the cars and the buses.
“The cars have to weave in and out of the traffic as well.”
She said the school community wanted the RMS to assess the situation.
“Why should the schools on the eastern side always be the poor relations.
“Glenroi is always getting left out.”
Miss Hatton said teachers had to supervise the crossing without proper safety equipment or high-visibility clothing.
School principal Jane Cameron said teachers were rostered to perform the crossing duty each day.
“Everyday myself and my staff are concerned about the safety of the children at our school.
“It’s not normally a congested road. Only in the morning at school entrance time and in the afternoon at school exit time.”
Bernard Fitzsimon, the Labor candidate at last year’s Orange byelection, said he had been contacted about the shortage.
“I have been approached by two concerned teachers about the lack of supervisors at these schools.”
He said the RMS should improve the pedestrian crossing at Glenroi, provide a lollipop person to relieve the teachers of the duty and improve bus parking at the school.
“It should be standard operating procedure.”
A spokesman for the RMS said it employed and trained crossing supervisors, paying them between $21.91 and $26.29 an hour.
“Roads and Maritime has worked with Bowen and Glenroi Heights public schools in recent years to address safety issues and the appointment of a crossing supervisor has not been discussed,” he said.
“Orange East Public School last submitted a request for a school crossing supervisor in June 2014.
“The site was investigated and the school was advised at the time it did not meet the criteria for a supervisor.”
He said school principals needed to contact the RMS to request crossing supervisors be provided.
An Education Department spokesman was contacted for comment.